order as they be here set down in the aforesaid Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February The Proxies also of Edward Earl of Derby John Earl of Oxford Henry Lord Strange Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon and Henry Lord Morley by which the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted their sole or joynt Proctor are entred in the same order they are Transcribed in the before mentioned Original Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March ensuing And lastly the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted the joynt Proctor with Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of Oliver Lord St. John of Bletto whose Letters Procuratory are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole Proctor of William Lord Burgh Edward Lord Windsor and William Lord Euers whose Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of this Parliament to have been returned on this Monday the 23th day of this January He was also Constituted the joynt Proctor of William Lord Grey of Wilton whose Proxie is entred as aforesaid to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February ensuing the Proxie also of Francis Earl of Huntington is entred as before to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March following by which he Constituted the said Lord Clinton his joynt Proctor with Henry Lord Hastings And for the Proxie of John Lord Darcie of Darcie entred there as before to have been returned on this day likewise he is Constituted his sole Proctor And lastly the said Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of William Lord Willoughby of Parham Edward Lord Hastings of Louthbury and of Oliver Lord St. John of Blestoe whose Proxies are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing By these three foregoing Presidents it doth plainly appear as also from all other Presidents of former and latter times that any Member of the Upper House by the ancient usage and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there were an Order made in the said House to the contrary upon the day of Anno Regis Caroli An. Dom. 1626. That no Lord cr Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Bucks both the favorite of the King deceased and of King Charles now Reigning this present year 1630 did to strengthen himself by voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also ingrossed to himself near upon 20. several Proxies And now if this doubt or conceipt should arise in any mans mind that therefore the Lords have a greater Priviledge than the Members of the House of Commons because they can appoint others to serve in and supply their places in their absence which the Commons cannot they are much deceived and mistaken for it is plain that the chief end of a Proxie is that the Upper House may have all its Members either in person or by representation and therefore the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who are Summoned thither in their own right have anciently had and still do retain the liberty of Constituting their Procurators whereas every Member of the House of Commons appeareth and doth serve in the right of that County City Burrough and Port for which he is Elected and Chosen which being a Trust and Confidence reposed in them can be no more transferred from him to a third person than can the Proxie of the Lords be from him to whom it is directed if he shall be absent likewise and therefore if any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron after he is Elected and returned shall before the meeting of the House be disabled by Sickness Attainder or other Cause from serving in the same then presently order is given from the House to the Clerk of the Crown for the sending thither a second Writ for a new Election so that the said House may not remain without any Member that appertains unto it And this I conceive Tantamount unto a Proxie which cannot be granted but when the absence of the Lord that sends it is perpetual during that whole Parliament or Session for which he Constitutes one or more Proctors for if he repair to the Upper House any time after and serve in Person his Proxie is presently void On Wednesday the 25th day of Ian. the Parliament was held according to the last Prorogation thereof on Monday the 23th day of this instant Ianuary foregoing and therefore this day is to be reckoned the first day of the Parliament and it was the error of Seimour Esq at this time Clerk of the House of Commons that in the Original Journal Book of the same House fol. 186. a. he accounteth and setteth down the Parliament to have begun on the aforesaid 23th day of Ianuary when it was only prorogued by which he would make that to be the first day thereof True it is that Anciently if the Parliament had been Prorogued on that day to which the Summons thereof had referred in the beginning of it they were so far from accounting that day the first of the ensuing Parliaments that new Writs of Summons were thereupon sent forth and a new day appointed for the beginning thereof as appears in the Parliament Rolls Anno 23. Edw. 1. die 20. Novemb. An. 60. Edw. 1. die 11. Decembris A. 33. Edw. 1. die 13. Julij A. 11. Edw. 2. die 3. Martij But yet it hath been the constant usage most Anciently and doth doubtless hold at this day also that if the King do come in Person to the Parliament on that day to which the Writs of Summons do refer and there cause it to be referred to another day in his own presence then shall that day be accounted the first day of the Parliament of which there are many Presidents also in the Parliament Rolls still remaining in the Tower of London prout in A. 6. Edw. 3. Octobris Sti ' Hillarij A. 14. Edw. 3. tempore Quadragessimi A. 15. Edw. 3. Quindena Paschae and of divers other Parliaments in his time and in the time of King R. 2. his Successor And thus also the last day of the Parliament or of any particular Session is counted to be that on which the Royal assent is given to one or more Acts of Parliament yet if that Parliament or Sessions be adjourned to another day on which the Sovereign doth again come in Person and cause it to be dissolved or further Prorogued then that latter day is to be accounted the last day thereof of which there is one only President during all the Reign of Queen Eliz ' viz. in the Original Journal Book A. 18. Dictae Reginae on Thursday the 15th day of March. The
as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
read by the Clerk of the Crown to every one of which allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Upper House read these French words following viz. La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk of the Upper House read the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty did forbear to allow the Clerk of the Upper-House read in these French words following viz. La Roigne s'advisera Her Majesty having given her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed in manner and form as aforesaid then Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Prorogued this Session of Parliament by her Majesties Commandment to a further day which is thus entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae Prorogavit praesens Parliamentum usque in secundum diem Octobris proximum futurum After which as is contained in the often before-mentioned Anonymous Autograph or Original Memorial of this days passages the Queen rose and proceeded into her Privy-Chamber and shifted and then proceeded to her Barge and so to the Court which was about six of the Clock in the Afternoon That which followeth being the second Prorogation of this foregoing Session de an 5 Regin Eliz. is entred at large at the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House de an 8 9 Reginae ejusdem being the second and last Session of this present Parliament yet because it fell out within this fifth Year and may indifferently be referred to the Upper House Journal of either Session I thought good in the transcribing of it to cause it to be annexed and added to this present Journal in manner and form following Memorandum quod secundo die Octobris Anno Regni Elizabethae Dei Gratiâ c. Quinto in quent diem 10 o die Aprilis ultimo elapso Prorogatum fuit hoc praesens Parliamentum ex Mandato dictae Dominae Reginae convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Marchio Wintoniae Thesaurarius Angliae Episcopus London Episcopus Wintoniae Dominus North Dominus Mordaunt Qui cùm convenissent adstantibus tunc etiam Populi Burgensiumque ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ dictus Dominus Thesaurarius paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum Populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dict a Domina Regina certis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moventibus maximè propter infectionem Aeris pestiferi per Civitates London Westmonaster ac suburbia earundem ad praesens grassantem differri in quintum diem Octobris qui erit in Anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quarto Atque ut tam Proceribus quà m Populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem it a constituisse Literas commissarias dictae Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armigero Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidit earum autem tenor hic erat Elizabeth Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo Willielmo Marchioni Winton The saurario Angliae ac reverendis in Christo Patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Roberto Episcopo Winton Willielmo Episcopo Cicestrensi nec non praedilectis fidelibus suis Henrico Domino Morley Arthuro Domino Grey de Wilton Edwardo Domino Windsor Johanni Domino Mordannt salutem Cùm nos nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii duo-decimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum tunc ibidem tentum continuatum fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequentem codemque decimo die Aprilis idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem secundum diem Octobris prorogatum fuerat ibidemque tunc tenendum continuandum Sciatis quod nos certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moventibus praecipuè propter infectionem Aeris pestiferi ubique per Civitates nostras London Westminster earundem Suburbia ad praesens invalescentem de fidelitate prudentiâ Circumspectione vestris plurinium confidentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavinius vos duos vestrum dantes vobis duobus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem sucultatem Authoritatem hoc instanti die Sabbathi ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in quintum diem Octobris qui erit in Anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quarto usque Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii praedict Prorogandum continuandum ibidemque tune tenend presequend ideo vobis Mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in forma praedicta effectualiter explicetis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgensibus ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventuris tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis quod vobis in praemissis faciend agend exequend pareant obediant intendant prout decct In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Castrum nostrum de Windsor secundo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Quinto After which second time of Prorogation in manner and form abovesaid it was again Prorogued three several times as aforesaid all which Prorogations are at large set down in the begining of the Journal of the Upper House in the Session of Parliament in Anno 8 Regin Eliz. THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. Dom. 1562. which began after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 12 th of January and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof upon Saturday the 10 th day of April An. D. 1563. THE Journal of this present Session of Parliament is not only furnished with many good Ordinary passages touching the reading ingrossing and passing of Bills but also with some unusual and remarkable matter concerning the Priviledges of the House it self and with the return of divers Burgesses from certain Burrough-Towns who had for some time before discontinued that their Priviledge And although that ..... Seymour Esq continued still Clerk of the House of Commons by which means the agitations of the said House were for the most part very imperfectly recorded by him in the Original Journal-Book of the
Saturday last continued The Bill for the reviving of a Statute made an 8 Eliz. for the Town of Shrewsbury was returned from the House of Commons conclusa The Bill against delays in Judgment in the Common Law was read secunda vice but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 28 th day of this instant June immediately foregoing In the Parliament Chamber where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled the day abovesaid in an 14 Regin Eliz. c. Whereas upon Complaint and Declaration made to the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal by Henry Lord Cromwell a Lord of the Parliament that in a Case between one James Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell depending in the Court of Chancery for not obeying to an Injunction given in the said Court of Chancery in the absence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at the Suit of the said Tavernor the person of the said Lord Cromwell was by the Sheriff of the County of Norfolk attached by virtue of a Writ of Attachment proceeding out of the said Court of Chancery contrary to the antient priviledge and immunity time out of memory unto the Lords of Parliament and Peers of this Realm in such case used and allowed as on the behalf of the said Lord Cromwell was declared and affirmed wherein the said Lord Cromwell as a Lord of Parliament prayed remedy Forasmuch as upon deliberate Examination of this Case in the said Parliament Chamber in the presence of the Judges and other of the Queens Majesties Learned Council there attendant in Parliament and upon Declaration of the opinions of the said Judges and Learned Council there hath been no matter directly produced or declared whereby it did appear or seem to the said Lords of Parliament there Assembled that by the Common Law or Custom of the Realm or by any Statute Law or by any President of the said Court of Chancery it is warranted that the person of any Lord having place and voice in Parliament in the like case in the said Court of Chancery before this time hath been Attached so as the awarding of the said Attachment at the Suit of the said Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell for any thing as yet declared to the said Lords appeareth to be derogatory and prejudicial to the antient priviledge claimed to belong to the Lords of this Realm Therefore it is the day and year aforesaid Ordered by consent of all the said Lords in Parliament there Assembled that the person of the said Lord Cromwell be from henceforth discharged of and from the said Attachment Provided nevertheless and so is the mind of the said Lords in Parliament plainly by them with one assent declared That if at any time during this Parliament or hereafter in any other Parliament there shall be shewed sufficient matter that by the Queens Prerogative or by the Common Law or Custom of this Realm or by any Statute Law or sufficient Presidents the person of any of the Lords of Parliament in such Case as this Case of the Lord Cromwell is ought to be attached or attachable then and from thenceforth it is by this order intended that to take place which so shall be shewed and warranted as above is said This Order or any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance of any continuance of the Parliament which seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the same House although it may very easily be gathered that the Parliament was continued unto some hour in the Afternoon of this present day and most probable it is that it was continued by the Lord Keeper because it appeareth without all question that he was present in the Afternoon Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty as may easily be gathered was present with the Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but their names through the great negligence of the above-named Anthony Mason Esq are not at all noted with the mark of being present neither are any of the passages of this Afternoon there entred saving only the Adjournment of the Parliament although it be most certain that her Majesty being present this Afternoon did put an end to this Session of Parliament by giving her Royal Assent to thirteen publick Acts and four private But yet there passed no Bill of her Majesties free and general pardon to the Subject nor of any Subsidies from them to her Majesty and the reason of it is plain because this Session of Parliament although some Statutes did of course pass in it was doubtless convocated chiefly for that great business touching the Scottish Queen of which there are divers passages in this proceeding Journal which see on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May on Tuesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant June foregoing And therefore now lastly as touching the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed in respect that it is matter of form and seldom differeth it is therefore supplied omitting that only which concerns the Bills of Subsidy and Pardon out of a draught thereof set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Session of Parliament To every publick Act that passed after that it had been read the Clerk of the Upper House standing up did openly pronounce her Majesties Allowance in these French words following La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk read the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament read in these French words following La Roigne s'advisera The several Acts being thus passed the next matter that followed was the Adjournment of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the manner and form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in festum omnium Sanctorum proximum futurum By the Entrance of which Adjournment it doth plainly appear that her Majesty was present in respect that it is said that the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament ex mandato Dominae Reginae And it is also worthy the observation that as the greatest part of the passages of this foregoing Monday on which this Session of Parliament ended are through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House
already had was only by the negligence and slackness of some others and not of her Majesty nor of this House alledging withal that some of the said Bishops had yet done something in those matters delivered by her Majesty to their Charge as in a more advised care of following and making of Ministers but yet in effect little or nothing to the purpose And so concluding moved this House to rest satisfied with her Majesties said most Gracious Answer and to resolve upon some form of yielding thanks unto her Highness for her most Gracious Acceptation of the humble Petition of this House unto her Highness in that behalf and also in putting her Majesty in remembrance for Execution thereof at her Highness good pleasure Vide concerning this business on Friday the third day of this instant March foregoing Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for maintenance of the Borders and Frontiers against Scotland was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer after sundry Motions and Arguments for the manner and form of proceeding in giving most humble thanks unto her Majesty for her Highness said most Gracious Acceptation of the most humble Petition of this House unto her Highness for redress of sundry Enormities in the Church and for the further putting of her Majesty in remembrance for Execution of the same moved that not this whole House nor any chosen or selected number of the same but rather M r Speaker in his Oration upon the last day of this Session do in the name of this whole House then yield unto her Highness their most humble and dutiful thanks with their like remembrance and continuation of their most humble and lowly Petition and Suit unto her Majesty for the speedy Execution and accomplishment thereof at her Highness good pleasure Vide concerning this business on Friday the third day of this instant March foregoing M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Clark did bring from the Lords an Act for reformation of errors in Fines and common Recoveries It is resolved by the House upon the Question that M r Speaker in the name of this whole House do in his Oration to her Majesty upon the last day of this present Session of Parliament give unto her Highness most humble and dutiful thanks in the name of this whole House for her Majesties said most Gracious Acceptation and Consideration of the said humble Petition and Suit of this House unto her Highness and do also put her Majesty in remembrance for the Execution and accomplishment thereof at her Highness good pleasure in such sort as to M r Speaker without receiving instruction or direction of any of this House shall seem most meet and convenient Vide concerning this matter on Friday the third day of this instant March foregoing On Wednesday the 8 th day of March the Bill for Inning of Erith and Plumsted-Marsh was read the first time and committed unto Sir Thomas Scott Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Browne Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Grimsditch and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Grimsditch who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Temple-Hall at two of the Clock The Bill for the assurance of Rent-Charge of eighty two pounds ten shillings to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors was read the first time and thereupon committed to the last former Committees Quod nota and was delivered to Sir Rowland Hayward one of the said Committees to meet at the said time and place before-mentioned Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against erecting of Iron-Mills near unto the City of London or River of Thames was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The two Bills last passed were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Serjeant Anderson did bring from the Lords the Bill against slanderous rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty which first passed the Upper House and being brought down into this House was afterwards sent from hence thither again with a certain Schedule of Amendments and also with an Addition thereunto of this House ingrossed in Parchment but not indorsed with soit baille aux Seigneurs for want whereof their Lordships had no Warrant to deal therewith any further and therefore willed that this House would either withdraw the said Addition ingrossed and so to pass the Bill or else cause the same to be indorsed that their Lordships might further proceed accordingly Whereupon immediately after the departing of the said Mr. Attorney and Mr. Serjeant Anderson the said Addition was indorsed and sent up by Mr. Treasurer and others The Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham K t deceased was read the first time Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Cromwell Mr. Atkins and Mr. Norton were appointed to confer together touching the answering and satisfying of the Contents of a Letter written by M r Hill to M r Speaker which was here read in the House by the Clerk and delivered to M r Cromwell one of the Committees to be considered by him and the residue of the said Committees accordingly Vide de ista materia on Tuesday the 14 th day of February foregoing as also on Saturday the 18 th day of this instant March following On Thursday the 9 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for colouring of strangers goods was read the first time Sir Rowland Hayward one of the Committees in the Bill for confirmation of an assurance of a Rent-Charge of eighty two pounds ten shillings to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors and for the Bill touching the Inning of Erith and Plumsled Marsh who were appointed immediately on the day foregoing declared that such saving as they think meet to be had in both the said Bills is conceived by the Committees already The Bill for Confirmation of an assurance of a Rent-Charge of eighty two pounds ten shillings to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors was read the second time and thereupon M r Recorder of London and M r Cowper were added to the former Committees and appointed to meet this Afternoon at the said Temple-Hall The Bill for repair of Dover Haven was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords the Bill against slanderous Speeches and seditious practices against the Queens Majesty declaring that their Lordships do require the consent of this House to some things altered and added by their Lordships to the said former alterations and Additions of this House and withal that their Lordships have already
for the better assurance that none creep into the charge and Cures being men of corrupt life or not known diligent it might be provided that none be Instituted or by Collation preferred to any benefice with cure of Souls or received to be Curate in any Charge without some competent notice before given to the Parishes where they take charge and some reasonable time allowed wherein it may be lawful to such as can discover any defect in conversation of life in the person who is to be so placed as is aforesaid to come and object the same 7. That for the encouragement of many to enter into the Ministry which are kept back by some conditions of Oaths and Subscriptions whereof they make scruple it may be considered whether this favour may be shewed them that hereafter no Oath or subscription be tendred to any that is to enter into the Ministry or to any benefice with Cure or to any place of preaching but such only as be expresly prescribed by the Statutes of this Realm Saving that it shall be lawful for every Ordinary to try any Ministers presented to any Benefice within his Diocess by his Oath whether he is to enter corruptly or incorruptly into the same 8. Whereas sundry Ministers of this Realm diligent in their calling and of godly conversation and life have of late years been grieved with Indictments in Temporal Courts and molested by some exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions for omitting small portions or some Ceremony prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer to the great disgrace of their Ministry and imboldening of men either hardly affected in religion or void of all Zeal to the same which also hath ministred no small occasion of discouragement to the forwardness of such as would otherwise enter into the Ministry some good and charitable means may be by their honorable discretions devised that such Ministers as in the publick service of the Church and in the administration of the Sacraments do use the Book of Common-Prayer allowed by the Statutes of this Realm and none other be not from henceforth called in question for omission or change of some Portion or rite as is aforesaid so there doings therein be void of contempt 9. That for as much as it is no small discouragement to many that they see such as be already in the Ministry openly disgraced by Officials and Commissaries who daily call them to their Courts to answer complaints of their doctrin and life or breach of Orders prescribed by the Ecclesiastical Laws and Statutes of this Realm It may please the reverend Fathers or Archbishops to take to their own hearings with such grave assistance as shall be thought meet the causes of Complaint made against any known Preacher within their Diocess and to proceed in the examination and Order thereof with as little discredit to the Person so complained of without great cause and in as charitable sort as may be restraining their said Officials and Commissaries to deal in any Sort in those Causes 10. It may also please the reverend Fathers to extend their charitable favours to such known godly and learned Preachers as have been Suspended or deprived for no publick offence of life but only for refusal to subscribe to such Articles as lately have been tendred in divers parts of this Realm or for such like things that they may be restored to their former Charges or places of Preaching or at least set at liberty to preach where they may be hereafter called 11. Further That it may please the reverend Fathers aforesaid to forbear their examinations ex officio mero of Godly and learned Preachers not detected unto them 〈◊〉 Offence of life or for publick maintaining of apparent error in Doctrin and only to deal with them for such matters as shall be detected in them And that also her Majesties Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical be required if it shall so seem good to forbear the like proceedings against such Preachers and not to call any of them out of the Diocess where he dwelleth except for some notable offence for Reformation whereof their aid shall be required by the Ordinary of the said Preachers 12. Item For the better increase of knowledge of such as shall be imployed in the Ministry It may please their Lordships to advise whether it may be permitted to the Ministers of every Archdeaconry within every Diocess to have some common exercise or conference amongst themselves to be limited and prescribed by their Ordinary both touching the moderation and also the time places and manner of the same so as the moderators of these exercises be Preachers resiant upon their benefices having Cure of Souls and known to bear good affection to the furtherance of such profit as may grow by the same exercises 13. Where complaint is made of the abuse of Excommunication which is the highest censure that Christ hath left to his Church and many are grieved as well in regard of the causes and matters wherein it is at this day used as of the persons which have the common execution thereof and no redress can be had herein but by Act of Parliament that some remedy may be thought of in that behalf before the end of this Session and for reformation to be had herein it may please their Lordships to consider whether some Bill might not be conveniently framed to this effect viz. That none having Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction shall in any matter already moved or hereafter mentioned give or pronounce any Sentence of Excommunication and that for the continuance of any Person in Cases depending before them it shall be lawful to pronounce him only contumax and so to denounce him publickly And if upon such Denuntiation as in Excommunications hath been used the Party shall not submit himself nor stand to abide such Order as is to him assigned within forty days then it shall be lawful to signifie his contumacy in such manner and sort and to such Court as heretofore hath been used for persons so long standing Excommunicate and that upon such Certificate a Writ de contumace capiendo shall be awarded of like force to all effects and purposes and with like Execution as the Writ de excommunicato capiendo is 14. Nevertheless for as much as it seemeth not meet that the Church should be left without this censure of Excommunication it may be provided that for enormous crimes as Incest Adultery and such like the same be Executed by the Reverend Fathers the Bishops themselves with the assistance of grave Persons or else by other persons of Calling in the Church with like assistance and with such other Considerations as upon deliberation shall be herein advised of and not by Chancellors Commissaries or Officials as hath been used 15. Where Licences of non-Residence are offensive in the Church and be occasion that a great number of this Realm do want instruction and it seemeth that Cases certain wherein the same may be allowed can hardly be devised such as shall be
this House The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against certain Patentees in certain Cases was read the first time M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees concerning Tillage and re-edifying of Houses and buildings who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this Instant November foregoing shewed very eloquently and at large the travel of the said Committees in their sundry meetings together with his framing a Bill by their appointment for some fit means of procuring the re-edifying of such Houses and Buildings And so offered the Bill to the House and recommending the same to their good considerations delivered the Bill to M r Speaker The Bill concerning the Lands of the Lord Mountjoy was upon the second reading committed to M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Sollicitor M r Francis Bacon M r Recorder of London Sir Tho. Cecill M r Pellham and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Tho. Cecill who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Treasury Chamber The Bill concerning George Durant was read the third time and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill and some tending to amendments to be made in some parts of the samè it was in the end deferr'd from being put to the question till Saturday next upon some expectation that the parties to the same Bill may in that mean time grow to some good end amongst themselves without any further troubling of this House therein The said M r Attorney and Mr. Doctor Stanhop coming from the Lords do signifie unto M r Speaker that where their Lordships had this present day sent unto this House an Act concerning the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign with a recommendation thereof from their Lordships unto this House and did afterwards receive the same Act back again from this House because the indorsement thereof was contrary to the ancient usual and due Custom of the Parliament subscribed and not subscribed according to the same ancient usual and due Custom of the Parliament as it ought to have been their Lordships have now sent down the said Act again unto this House indorsed under the same Act according to the ancient former usage of the Parliament And do further signify unto this House that as the said superscribing of the said Indorsement of the said Act in such manner before was indeed a fault so the same did grow only by an error in the Clerk of the Upper House who had never exercised the place before this present Sessions of Parliament And that their Lordships liking very well of that which was done by this House touching the said Error do withal wishs this House to continue all former good Order and Courses in all Parliament proceedings Vide initium istius materiae inter praecedaneas relationes hujus Diei On Friday the 25 th day of November four Bills had each of them one reading Of which the last being the Bill concerning the Lands and Tenements of Sir John Spencer Knight was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Winch Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Rotheram M r Henry Yelverton M r Luke Sir Richard Knightley M r Henry Hubbard M r Robert Wingfield the Knights for Bedfordshire and M r Bourchier And the Bill was delivered unto Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet at the Middle Temple Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for assuring of certain Lands and Tenements unto Robert Cotton c. was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees in the Bill concerning Sir John Spencer and at the same time and place And there were added unto them Sir John Hungerford M r William Cecill the Knights for the County of Huntington M r William Cotton M r Henry Mountague and M r Valentine Knightley and the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Wroth. The Bill concerning the draining of certain surrounded grounds in the County of Norfolk was upon the second reading committed unto M r Nathaniel Bacon Sir Anthony Cope M r Henry Yelverton M r Henry Spillman Sir Robert Wroth and others And the Bill was delivered to the said Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Bourchier one of the Committees in the Bill for the relief of Arthur Hatch who were appointed on Tuesday the 20 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and their travels in hearing of the Councel of all the said Parties And so reporting the particularities of the state of the Case to the good satisfaction of the House delivered in the Bill which was thereupon presently Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed M r Snagg one of the Committees concerning Blockwood and Worsted Yarn who were appointed on Friday the 18 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees with their Amendments in the said Bill concerning Blockwood and delivered in the same Bill with the Amendments which being thrice read was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read the first time M r Secretary Cecill moved the second reading of this Bill to be to Morrow and wished all the Members of this House to be present at the same and provided as they shall think fit to imploy their endeavour and Speeches to the furtherance of the proceedings in the said Bill Whereupon it was agreed that both this Bill and also the other Bill for encrease of Tillage shall be both of them read to Morrow next for their second reading M r ..... one of the Committees in the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars whose names see on Tuesday the 22 d day of this instant November foregoing shewed the sundry meetings and travel of the said Committees and their Amendments of sundry parts of the said Bill with addition of the two last leaves and so delivered in the Bill in such sort amended Which Bill being very long and the said Amendments many the day being also far spent the reading of the said Amendments and Addition were deferred till some other more convenient time On Saturday the 26 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for enrolling and exemplifying of Defeasances was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobby M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r Francis Moore M r Edward Lewkenor and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill concerning the carrying of Sheep-Skins and Pelts over the Seas was read the second time and
directed unto him for a Proxie is but an Authority to give another man's assent which cannot be transferred to a third person yet doth the sending of one Proxie sufficiently excuse any absent Lord although the Peer to whom it is directed be not present himself but as soon as that absent Lord shall have notice that he or they whom he constituted for his Procurators do themselves send their Proxies also by reason of their absence then may he send another Proxie and constitute one other or more Proctors for himself and in his stead to give his voice de Novo as the Lord Vaux did in A. 18. Jacobi Regis After those Bloody and Intestine Civil Wars which had been raised in England in the year 1642. and that Robert Earl of Essex General of the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament against the King had by the Power of the Independent Faction over ballancing those who desired the settling of the Presbyterian Government been laid aside and Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight placed in his Room the opposition between those two Parties in either House of Parliament growing every day higher and higher the Aged Earl of Mulgrave being an Enemy to all Faction and Innovation was much troubled that William Viscount Say and Seale the chief Promoter of the Independent Novelties did make use of his Proxie for the acting and passing those particulars which were contrary to the Judgment and Conscience of him the said Earl of Mulgrave And therefore my advise being desired by some of the Members of the House of Commons for the reminding him thereof I drew the Letter and Instrument ensuing being not only the first but the sole President also of this King which yet remains upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the House of Peers To the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Peers pro Tempore My very good Lord I am humbly to request of your Lordship to communicate this my present Instrument under my hand and Seal to the House of Peers that it may be publickly there Read and remain upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the same House Kenzington April 1646. I am Your Lordships humble Servant TO all Christian People to whom these presents shall come Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Greeting Know Ye that Whereas I the said Edmund Earl of Mulgrave have formerly constituted the Right Honourable William Viscount Say and Seal c. my lawful Actor and Procurator for me and in my name to give my Voice and Suffrage upon all such emergent Occasions as the same shall be requisite by the ancient Orders and Constitutions of the House of Peers That I do now by these presents Revoke and Vacate the Proxie by which I did formerly Constitute the said William Viscount Say and Seal my lawful Actor and Procurator as is aforesaid and do hereby declare the same Proxie to be utterly Annulled Vacated and Revoked to all intents and purposes whatsoever In witness whereof I have Signed and Scaled these presents this day of April in the 22th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King etc. An. Dom. 1646. This Instrument was written and ingrossed in Parchment as a Deed Poll is and to it in a Libel of Parchment was the Seal of the said Earl of Mulgrave affixed and it was read and allowed in the House of Peers Soon after the allowance of the aforesaid Instrument the said Earl of Mulgrave sent this ensuing Proxie to the Earl of Essex who made use of it in the House of Peers and it was there allowed of without any the least question or dispute OMnibus Christi Fidelibus ad quos hoc presens Scriptum pervener it Edmundus Comes de Mulgrave Salutem Noveritis me prefatum Edmundum Comitem de Mulgrave per Licentiam Serenissimi Domini nostri Regis a presenti hoc suo Parliamento inchoat ' et tent ' apud Westmonasterium etc. sufficientèr excusatum abesse nominare ordinare et constituere dilectum mihi in Christo et honorandum Virum Robertum Comitem Essex meum verum certum et indubitatum Factorem Actorem seu Procuratorem per presentes eidemque procuratori meo dare concedere plenam Authoritatem potestatem pro me nomine meo de super quibuscunque causis negotiis in Presenti hoc Parliamento exponendis seu declarandis tractandi tractatibusque hujusmodi inibi factis seu faciendis consilium auxilium nomine meo impendendi statutisque etiam ordination ' quae ex maturo deliberato judicio Domincrum in eodem Parliamento congregat ' inactitart seu ordinari contiger in t nomine meo consentiendi Caeteraque omnia singula quae in praemissis necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet requisita faciendi exercendi in tam amplis modo forma ut ego ipse facere possem aut deberem si presens personalitèr interessem Ratum Gratum habiturus totum quicquid Procuratormeus statuerit aut fecerit in praemissis In 〈◊〉 rei testimonium praesentibus subscripsi Sigillumque apposui Neither will it be impertinent to set down here how many Proxies were sent to some special Peers at this Parliament it having been my usual course to make some short remembrance of them in all their Journals of Queen Eliz's Reign upon the first day that any extraordinary Proxies were returned and I have caused not only the Presidents of this kind to be inserted here at large in respect this was the first Parliament of her Majesties Reign but also because they are more full and direct than any other that ensue to prove what hath been the ancient use and Priviledge of the Peers of the Upper House in the matter of sending and receiving of Lords Procuratory At first Nicolas Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury remained still void since the Death of Cardinal Pool was constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of David Bishop of Peterborough Cuthbert Bishop of Durham Thomas Bishop of Ely Gilbert Bishop of Bath and Wells Henry Bishop of St. Davids and of Thomas Tresham Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned on Monday the 23th day of January on which this present Parliament was Summoned to have begun Francis Earl of Bedford was also Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of 15 several Peers viz. of John Lord Mordant William Lord Paget George Lord Zouch and of Henry Lord Aburgaveny all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned this present Monday the 23th day of January He was also constituted the joynt Proctor of Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral Thomas Lord Sands William Lord Vaux of Heredoun William Lord Gray of Wilton and Henry Earl of Cumberland all whose Proxies are entred in such
communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa A Bill containing certain Provisoes to be annexed to the Bill of First-fruits and Tenths was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill lastly for the restoring of the Supremacy of the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Statutes made to the contrary was read the second time and Committed unto the Marquess of Winchester the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Westmerland the Earl of Shewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembrook Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Clinton Admiral the Lord Morley the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North. On Wednesday the 15th day of March a Bill containing six Provisoes to be annexed to the Bill of First-fruits and Tenths was read tertia vice conclusa Dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' Episcopo Winton ' Episcopo Wigorn ' Episcop ' Landaven ' Episcop ' Coven ' Episcop ' Exon ' Episcopo Cestren ' Episcopo Carliolen ' ac Abbat ' de Westm. Nota that the Bill having Passed the Upper House before on the 4th day of January last past was then opposed by all the Spiritual Lords there present as now also upon the passing of those Provisoes and Amendments which had been added unto it in the House of Commons amongst which Spiritual Lords the Abbot of Westminster did yet sit in Parliament and gave his free voice by which manner of alteration of the Form of Ecclesiastical Government we may observe with what mildness and wisdom this pious Princess Queen Elizabeth took it in hand far differing from those furious and bloody Enterprizes and Confusions practised in the Reign of her Sister Mary and it is to be noted that this Abbot of Westm ' with five other Abbots and Abbesses were all who were at this time lest in England and were deprived of their Promotions at the end of the Parliament with fourteen Popish Bishops amongst which were all these here named except the Bishop of Landaffe in An. Dom. 1559. and others were Consecrated in the places of the said Bishops where it is further to be noted that of 9400 Ecclesiastical persons settled in their several Promotions but 177 left their Livings to continue in their Romish Idolatry A Bill being agreed upon by the Lords to be annexed to the Bill of Supremacy was read 1 a. vice On Thursday the 16th day of March to which day the Parliament had been first continued nothing was done save only the continuance of Parliament by the Lord Keeper usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Fryday the 17th day of March the Bill for certain Provisoes and Amendments to be put in the Bill of Supremacy was read the second time commissa ad ingrossand On Saturday the 18th day of March the Bill for the restoring of the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary with certain Provisoes added thereunto by the Lords and sundry other Amendments was read the third time conclus ' dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' Comite Salop Vicecomite Monutacuto Episcopo London ' Episcopo Winton ' Episcopo Wigorn ' Episcopo Landaven ' Episcopo Coven ' Episcopo Exon ' Episcopo Cestren ' Episcopo Carliol ' Abbas de Westm ' Et predicta Billa est Commissa Attornato Solicitatori Reginae in Domum Communem deferend Here also we may still note the great Lenity and mercy of this great Queen who suffered so many Heretical and obstinately Popish Bishops to hold their Sees to have free voices in Parliament besides the Abbot of Westm ' who all thus opposed the just power and Authority which the Princes of this Realm have under God himself within their Dominions and which our Ancient Kings under the darkest times of Popery did easily discern and not improbably aim at as we may see frequently specified in the Ancient and most Authentick Records of this Kingdom viz. Rotulorum Patentium a. 3. Regis Johannis numero 8. 28. Rot. Pat. a. 5. Reg. Joh. num 15. Rot. Pat. a. 10. Reg. Joh. num 3 ubi continetur salvus conductus pro Simone de Langeton Romanae sedis Cardinale ad tractand ' cum certis Episcopis modo cum applicuerit securitatem faciat quod in hoc adventu suo malum Regi vel regno suo non quaerent Rot. Pat. a. 22. H. 3. num 2. num 3. Rot. Pat. a. 25. H. 3. num 2. num 5. Rot. Pat. a. 28. H. 3. num 6. Rot. Pat. a. 33. H. 3. num 4. Rot. Pat. a. 34. H. 3. indors num 1. Rot. Pat. a. 39. H. 3. indors num 14. Rot. Pat. a. 42. H. 3. num 35. Rot. Pat. a. 45. H. 3. num 27. Rot. Pat. a. 48. H. 3. num 31. Rot. Pat. a. 51. H. 3. num 27. Rot. Pat. a. 8. E. primi 3 Rot. Pat. a. 9. E. 1. 2 in quibus continentur inhibitiones aliae literae Regis missae Joh. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi ac clero Angliae in consiliis apud London Lambeth convocatis ne quid in eisdem attentarent in praejudicium Regis Coronae aut dignitatis suae Rot. Pat. a. 31. E. 1. 7. Rot. Romae a. 34. 35. E. 1. 4. 8. 9 rot pat a. 35. E. 1. 3. Rot. Scotiae a. 23. 24. E. 1. 6. Rot. Romae a. 1. 2. 3. E. 2. 5. 20. 22 24 25. 27. Rot. Romae a. 4. 5 6 7 8 9 10. E. 2. 14. 15. indors ejusdem Rotuli 1. Rot. Romae a. 11. 12 13 14. E. 2. 1. indors ' ejusdem Rotuli 2. Rot. Romae a. 15 16 17 18. E. 2. 23. 24. 30. Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 2. in Scedula 11. 17. ibid. Rot. Pat. a. 11. E. 2. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 2. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 2. parte prima sub initio Rotuli Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 2. parte prima Rot. Romae a. 1. E. 3. 5. 6. 8. Rot. Rom. a. 4. E. 3. 2. 6. Rot. Romae a. 7. a. 8. E. 3. 6. 9. Rot. Romae a. 9. a. 10. E. 3. 3. 4. 14. Rot. Romae a. 19 E. 3. 3. Rot. Romae a. 17. E. 3. 1. 3. 6. Rot. Romae a. 20. E. 3. 1. 3. Rot. Franciae a. 17. E. 3. 6. a. 28. E. 3. 2. Ubi memorabile hoc continetur quod Rex E. 3. Misit quam plures Nobiles ad tractandum de pace cum Rege Franciae coram Papa non ut coram Judice sed ut privata persona tractatore mediatore communi non in forma nec figura Ju dicij sed extrajudicialitèr amicabilitèr Rot. Pat. a. 2. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 4. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat.
to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the ingrossing of Dead Victuals which had formerly passed the House of Commons and been sent up from thence to their Lordships engrossed in Parchment on Tuesday the 7 th day of this Instant March foregoing and so remained still the Bill of the same House did cause the said Proviso to be written in Parchment and annexed it to the Bill shewing the line and the place of the line where the Proviso should be put in and then their Lordships subscribed or endorsed under the superscription or indorsement of the House of Commons in the same Bill à ceste Bille avecque une provision annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus And so the Bill was delivered to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor as aforesaid to be carried to the House of Commons But if the Lords had added any amendments to the foresaid Bill those ought to have been sent down to the House of Commons written in Paper Ut vide on Thursday the 16. day of February foregoing The Parliament continued and nothing done till Tuesday the 4. day of April and then the Bill that the Queens Majesty upon the avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick may exchange the temporal possessions thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was read the first time And then the Parliament continued till the next day at nine of the Clock on which day were several Proxies both ordinary and extraordinary entred On Wednesday the 5. day of April the Bill for Leases to be made by spiritual persons was committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlisse the Lord Rich the Lord North the Lord Hastings de Loughborrow and the Abbot of Westminster ☞ Nota that this Bill had its second reading on Thursday the 23. of March foregoing and was not committed until this day of which there want not other Presidents during her Majesties Reign as on Monday the 13. day of February foregoing and on Thursday the 6. day of this Instant April ensuing The Bill whereby the Queens Majesty upon avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick may resume the temporal possessions thereof into her hands recompensing the value thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was read the second time And then the Parliament continued till Thursday the 6. day of April on which day the Bill whereby the Queens Majesty upon the avoidance of any Archbishoprick may resume the Temporalties thereof recompencing the just value thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was Order'd to be ingrossed ☞ Nota This Bill was read the second time yesterday and was not Ordered to be ingrossed until this day of which nature there want not other Presidents during her Majesties Reign where a Bill being read secunda vice on one day was referr'd to Committees on another ensuing Prout vide on April the 5. immediately foregoing But at this day it is the constant rule and observation of the Upper House that no Bill be either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees but upon that very day on which it is read And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock The Bill giving Authority to the Queens Highness upon the avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick to take into her hands the temporal possessions thereof recompensing the same with Parsonages impropriate was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Ehoracen Episcopis Londin Wigorn. Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Abbat de Westm. And it was delivered to the Queens Sollicitor and Mr. Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons And then the Parliament by several continuances continued and nothing done till Friday the 14. day of April on which day four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against the deceitful using of Linnen the second that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit in Towns near the Sea-Coasts and the third being to revive the Act of Parliament made Anno 5 Ed. 6. for keeping of Holydays and fasting-Fasting-days were each of them read prima vice And the fourth and last was the Bill for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same vid. touching this Bill on Saturday the 29 day of this Instant April ensuing And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock And the Bill against deceitful using of Linnen-Cloth The Bill that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit near the Sea Coasts And the Bill to revive the Act of Parliament made An. 5 Ed. 6. for keeping of Holydays and Fasting-days were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on yesterday foregoing The Bill lastly restoring the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual to the Crown and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read prima vice vide touching this Bill on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Parliament continued till Monday the 17. of April And then the Bill against the deceitful using of Linnen-Cloth was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Com. Arundel And the Bill for the restitution in blood of Henry Howard and Katherine Wise unto the Lord Berkeley communi omnium Procerum assensu suit conclusa The Bill that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit in Towns near the Sea-Coasts was read tertia vice rejecta The Bill lastly for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing of Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read secunda vice commissa Duci Norfolc Comiti Arundel Comiti Salop Comiti Wigorn. Comiti Rutland Comiti Sussex Comiti Bedford Vicecomiti Mountacute Episcopo Londin Episcopo Elien Episcopo Carleol Domino Admirallo Camerario ac Domino Rich Domino Hastings de Loughborrow ac Domino St. John de Blestoe vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Parliament by several continuances continued till Tuesday the 25. day of April at nine of the Clock in the Morning and then nine Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill for Shipping in English Bottoms and the third and fourth touching Frizes called Pagaments and concerning the buying and selling of Horses within a certain time were each of them read prima vice The fifth was touching the Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments The sixth was touching Hexam and Hexamshire in the County of Northumberland The seventh to revive an Act made for killing of Rookes and Crowes The eighth was to make good Leases Grants of Offices and Copyholds made by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of
London And the ninth and last being for preservation of Spawn and Fry of Fish was read the first time A Proviso to be annexed to the Bill for the Supremacy was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum vide touching the said Bill and Proviso on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Bill for the restitution of Gregory Fynes was read prima secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa and it was then presently delivered to Sir Richard Read and the Clerk of the Crown to be carried down to the House of Commons ☞ Quod nota The Parliament continued till Wednesday the 26 th Day of April And then the Bill for Shipping in English Bottoms and the Bill to make good Leases Grants of Offices and Copyhold Lands made by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of London were each of them read Prima vice The Bill restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same with a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords were read tertia vice conclus dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Vicecomite Mountague Episcopo Londin Episcopo Elien Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Landaven Episcopo Coven Episcopo Oxon. Episcopo Cestren Episcopo Carlcolen ac Abbate de Westminster commissae Magistro Weston servienti ad Legem Attornato Dominae Reginae ad Communes deferend ☞ Nota That all these Bishops except the Bishop of Ely did oppose the passing of a former Bill much to this effect and purpose on Saturday the 18. day of March foregoing although with as little success to hinder the passing of the Bill then as now and yet how little reason these Popish Bishops had thus stifly and obstinately to resist the passing of this Bill doth fully appear by my Animadversion which I have caused to be entred at large Quam vide in dicto 18. die Martii vide also how these two Bills hapned to pass both the Houses to one and the same purpose in another of my Animadversions which I have caused to be inserted on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Bill lastly for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments was read prima vice And then the Parliament continued till two of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same day about which hour in the Afternoon the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Shipping in English Bottoms The third touching buying and selling of Horses within a certain time The fourth touching Frizes called Pagaments And the last to make Good Leases Grants of Offices and Copyhold Lands by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of London were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either to be referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because they had been sent from the House of Commons on Tuesday the 25. day of this instant April foregoing And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock in the Morning at which time the Bill for buying and selling of Horses within a certain time and the Bill for Shipping in English Bottoms were read tertia vice conclusae The Bill touching Frizes called Pagaments was read tertia vice reject a. The Bill lastly touching the reviving of the Act for killing of Rooks and Crows and the Bill for the Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of Sacraments were each of them read the second time Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was For the searching of Woollen-Cloth The second whereby the use and practice of Enchantments Witchcraft and Sorcery is made Felony And the last being the Bill to continue the Act made against Rebellious Assemblies was read the first time The Parliament continued till Friday the 28. day of April at nine of the Clock And then three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to continue an Act against Rebellious Assemblies was read the second time The Bill for the Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of Sacraments was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eborac Marchione Winton Comite Salop. Vicecomite Mountagne Episcopis Londin Elien Wigorn. Landaven Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol ac Dominis Morley Stafford Dudley Wharton Rich and North vide Apr. 29. Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same with a new Proviso added thereunto by the Commons which see in principio diei sequentis And the second of the said Bills was limiting time for laying on Land Merchandizes from beyond the Seas and touching Customs for sweet Wines The Parliament continued till Saturday the 29. day of April at nine of the Clock in the Forenoon on which day a Proviso annexed by the Commons to the Bill for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read tertia vice conclusa but it rather seemeth that this Proviso had at this time three readings and so passed and 't is very probable that either the Bishops having had so ill success in opposing this Bill on Wednesday the 26. of this Instant April foregoing did now forbear to oppose the passing of the new Proviso added unto it or else that the Clerk was mistaken in the entrance of it for it seems here by the Original Journal Book that this Proviso passed nullo dissentiente ☞ Nota That this Proviso here named to have passed the House this day was part of that Bill for the Supremacy to which her Majesty gave her Royal Assent And is the first Statute Printed inter Statuta an 1. Regin Eliz. And it is as true that there was a former Bill touching the Supremacy which the two Houses laboured long about although it seemeth it came afterwards to nothing And the Bill to which this foregoing Proviso was annexed was received in its stead Yet because the mature deliberation and long debatement of the two Houses therein may appear it will not be amiss to make some observation upon it for the said former Bill having first past the House of Commons as appears by the Original Journal Book thereof fol. 193. b. on Saturday the 25. day was sent up to the Lords on Monday the 27. day of February foregoing and had with them its first reading on Tuesday the 28. day of the same Month And on Monday the 13. day of March the said Lords
Forenoon in Westminster Church between the Popish Bishops and some Learned men of the Protestant Religion which is at large set down Acts and Monuments à pag. 1919. usque ad pag. 1922. at which the Lords of the Upper House and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons desired as it should seem to be present Vide also on Monday the third day of April next ensuing On Monday the third day of April Mr. Speaker with a few of this House was present and part of the Bill for sealing of Cloths was read but for that this day was appointed to have disputation before the Council and Lords in Westminster Quire between the Bishops and Mr. Horne Mr. Cocks and other English Men that came from Geneva And for that it was meet that they of this House should be there present to hear this Court was continued until the Morrow following Her Majesties godly desire to abolish superstition and to preserve Unity and Truth in the Church doth fully appear by the appointment and permission of this disputation which began in Westminster Church on Friday the last day of March immediately foregoing not here mentioned as is at large set down in that Laborious and Voluminous Work of Mr. Fox his Acts and Monuments On Tuesday the 4. day of April the Bill to revive the Act for Holy-days and Fasting-dayes and the Bill against Sorceries Witchcrafts and Prophecies of Badges and Arms were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 5. day of April the Bill for the true Answering of the Queens Majesties Revenues was read the second time but no mention is made that it was Ordered to be engrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords On Thursday the 6. day of April the Bill to restore spiritual persons deprived in the time of Queen Mary was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to Mr. Goldsmith and others not named The Bill that all such Colledges and Chantries granted to King Edward the Sixth shall be also in the Queens Majesty was read the first time And lastly the Bill against buying and selling of Horses was upon the third reading Ordered to be ingrossed Quod nota On Friday April the 7. the Bill touching the Orders for Men-servants was read the first time And as it should seem committed unto Sir Anthony Coke to consider of it The Bill touching Shipping of Wares and the Bill for the true Answering of the Customs for Merchandizes were each of them read the first time The Bill for Bishops Temporalties was brought from the Lords by Mr. Weston and Doctor Vaughan and the Bill lastly that the Queen shall have the Bishops Temporalties during the Vacation for recompence of Tythes and Parsonages impropriate was read the first time On Saturday the 8. day of April the Bill to revive the Act for sowing of Flax and Hemp and the Bill for encrease of Woods had each of them their first reading The Bill touching Colledges and Chantries granted to King Edward the Sixth to be in the Queen by Explanation of this Bill was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Mersh and others not named The Bill lastly that the Queen and her Heirs shall have the Temporalties of Bishops for recompence of Tenths and Parsonages impropriate was also read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords On Monday the 10. day of April the Bill for sealing of Woollen Cloaths was read the first time It was this day Ordered that the names shall be called on Wednesday next in the Afternoon Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that the Inhabitants being Craftsmen in Kent shall dwell near the Sea-Coasts was read the third time and pass'd the House The new Bill lastly to avoid the usurped power claimed by any Foreigner in this Realm and for the Oath to be taken by spiritual and temporal Officers was read the first time On Tuesday the 11. day of April the Bill to preserve the Spawn and Fry of Fish And the Bill to continue the Act made for sowing of Hemp and Flax were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 12. day of April the Bill to avoid all Foreign Power used by any Foreign Potentate in the Realm and for the Oath to be taken was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for punishment of such persons as misuse Linnen-Cloth with Chalk was read the third time and passed the House On Thursday the 13. day of April the Bill for restoring the spiritual Jurisdiction to the Imperial Crown of the Realm and abolishing Foreign Power was read the third time and upon the question pass'd the House The Bill to revive the Act for punishment of Rebellions was read the first time and the Bill for entring the goods of Merchants and unlading and for Customs of Sweet Wines was read the second time Robert Whitney one of the Knights for Hereford was Licensed to go home because his Wife was lately departed On Friday the 14 th day of April four Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for punishment of such persons as misuse Linnen-Cloth with Chalk and another for the abolishing of Foreign Power The Bill for searching and sealing of Woollen-Cloths The Bill for making of Frizes in Cardigan Carmarthen and Pembroke And the Bill to explain the Statute made against Ingrossers of Dead Victuals were each of them read the first time On Saturday the 15 th day of April the new Bill for the Assurance of Lands parcel of the Bishoprick of Worcester to Sir Francis Jobson and Walter Blunt was read the first time It was Ordered that the Serjeant shall shew unto the Master of the Rolls that his Servant ..... Thrower shall be here on Monday next to Answer to certain evil words spoken by him against the House opened by M r Skinner and M r Carnefewe Vide plus concerning this business on Monday the 17 th day of this instant April ensuing Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that Hexham and Hexhamshire shall be of the County of Northumberland and another for Confirmation of Leases Grants of Offices and Copyholds by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of London and a third to avoid the often buying and selling of Horses and Mares had each of them their third reading and passed the House On Monday the 17 th day of April the Bill touching Knights and Burgesses for Attendance in the Parliament was read the first time The Bill to revive the Act for destruction of Choughs and
Constituted the sole and joint Proxy of eight several Temporal Lords who with six others as is aforesaid were absent this Session of Parliament from which as also from other Presidents of former and later times it may easily be gathered that any Member of the Upper House by the antient usage and custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there was an Order made in the said House to the contrary A. D. 1626. That no Lord or Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said Order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Buckingham Favorite of the King Deceased and of King Charles being guilty of many Crimes did to strengthen himself by Voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also engrossed to himself near upon twenty several Proxies Vide one other Extraordinary Proxy on Saturday the 9 th day of November and another on Sunday December the first following This Forenoon also these twenty Lords under written were appointed to repair in the Afternoon to the Queens Majesty viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmoreland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick Viscount Bindon Viscount Mountague The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Cobham The Lord Rich. The Lord Wentworth The Lord Pagett The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Hastings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon The business about which these Lords repaired to the Queen is not in the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House but it may be guested it was concerning those two great businesses of the Queens Marriage and the Declaration of the next Heir and Successor after the Queens Decease to the Crown which business bred so much distast afterwards between her Majesty and her Subjects in this Session so that as afterwards the Lords did Petition the Queen about it so now it should seem these Lords repaired unto her either to desire leave to prefer that Petition and that they might confer with the House of Commons about it or else to know of her Majesty a fitting time when they might repair unto her with their said Petition and so receive Answer unto it But what the Queen replied at this time is hard to be conjectured only it followeth at large that on Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Members of both Houses for that end appointed repaired to her Majesty in the Afternoon but whether they then offered up their Petitions unto her Majesty or whether the House of Commons did at this Session of Parliament prefer any Petition at all concerning those two great matters aforesaid is hard to be determined No mention is made in the Original Journal-Book of continuing the Parliament which seemeth to have happened by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday the 23 th day of October the Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching the prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read primâ vice An Act declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Realm to be good lawful and perfect was brought from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 24 th day of October the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal did Assemble in the Parliament-Chamber where nothing was done but only the continuance of the Parliament until Friday next at ten of the Clock On Friday the 25 th day of October the Lord Treasurer signified to all the Lords that the Queens Highness considering the decay of his Memory and Hearing being Griefs accompanying Hoary Hairs and Old Age and understanding the Lord Keepers slow amendment intended to supply both their said defects by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and shewed forth her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England which the Clerk by Commandment openly read in haec verba ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and well Beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Pleas to be holden before us Greeting Where our right trusty and well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this present sore visited with sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper House amongst the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth have named and appointed you from day to day and time to time hereafter during our pleasure to use and occupy the place and room of the said Lord Keeper in our said Upper House of Parliament amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled and there to do and execute in all things from day to day and time to time as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should and might do if he were there present using and supplying the same place Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend unto and about the Executing of the premisses with effect And these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 25 th day of October in the Eighth Year of Our Reign Martin The Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made in the 23 th Year of Henry 8. touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read tertiâ vice and by common consent of all the Lords concluded Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati proximum On Saturday the 26 th day of October the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read primâ vice Memorandum The Lords after deliberate Consultation and advice taken how to proceed in the great matters of Succession and Marriage before moved by the House of Commons did this present day send Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney down unto them to signifie that they would a chosen number should be sent up unto them for their knowledge to be had of the same Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 30 th day of October now next ensuing as also on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus
Speeches of this present Afternoon Now solloweth the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed out of one of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House durante Regno Regin Eliz. viz. in an 30. although it be not so expresly set down in that of this present Session of Parliament Then were the Titles of all the Acts read in their due Order and the Bill of Subsidy to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Roigne remercie ses loyaulx subjects accepte leur henevolence auxi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament assembles au nom de touts vous autres subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majesty prient à Dieu que il vous done en santè bonne vie longue Nota That here to the Subsidy Bill because it is the meer gift of the Subject the Queens Consent is not required for the passing of it but as it is joined with her thankful acceptance Nor to the Bill of Pardon because it is originally her free gift is any other circumstance required than that the thankful acceptance thereof by the Lords and Commons be likewise expressed it being but once read in either House before it come thus at last to be expedited Now to all other Bills either private or publick the Queens express consent though in different words is always requisite as followeth viz. The Bills of Subsidy and Pardon being passed in manner and form as aforesaid then were the publick Acts read to every one of which allowed by the Queén the Clerk of the Parliament read in French these words following viz. La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk of the Parliament read the Queens Answer in these French words following viz. Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following viz. La Roigne s' advisera THen the Queen standing up said after she had given her Royal Assent unto nineteen publick Acts and thirteen private My Lords and others the Commons of this Assembly although the Lord Keeper hath according to Order very well Answered in my Name yet as a Periphrasis I have a few words further to speak unto you Notwithstanding I have not been used nor love to do it in such open Assemblies yet now not to the end to amend his talk but remembring that commonly Princes own words be better printed in the hearers memory than those spoken by her Command I mean to say thus much unto you I have in this Assembly found so much dissimulation where I always professed plainness that I marvail thereat yea two Faces under one Hood and the Body rotten being covered with two Vizors Succession and Liberty which they determined must be either presently granted denied or deferred In granting whereof they had their desires and denying or deferring thereof those things being so plaudable as indeed to all men they are they thought to work me that mischief which never Foreign Enemy could bring to pass which is the hatred of my Commons But alas they began to pierce the Vessel before the Wine was fined and began a thing not foreseeing the end how by this means I have seen my well-willers from mine Enemies and can as me seemeth very well divide the House into four First the Broachers and workers thereof who are in the greatest fault Secondly The Speakers who by Eloquent Tales perswaded others are in the next degree Thirdly The agreers who being so light of Credit that the Eloquence of the Tales so overcame them that they gave more Credit thereunto than unto their own Wits And lastly those that sate still Mute and medled not therewith but rather wondred disallowing the matter who in my Opinion are most to be Excused But do you think that either I am unmindful of your Surety by Succession wherein is all my Care considering I know my self to be mortal No I warrant you Or that I went about to break your Liberberties No it was never in my meaning but to stay you before you sell into the Ditch For all things have their time And although perhaps you may have after me one better Learned or Wiser yet I assure you none more careful over you And therefore henceforth whether I live to see the like Assembly or no or whoever it be yet beware however you prove your Princes Patience as you have now done mine And now to conclude all this nonwithstanding not meaning to make a Lent of Christmas the most part of you may assure your selves that you depart in your Princes Grace Then she spake openly to the Lord Keeper saying My Lord You will do as I bad Who then said aloud The Queens Majesty hath agreed to Dissolve this Parliament Therefore every man may take his ease and depart at his pleasure And the Queen rose and went and shifted her and took her Barge and returned to the Court being past six of the Clock and then after her rising she made Anthony Browne one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas a Knight That the advice and consent of the Common-Council or Parliament was often required for the Marrying of the Kings of England 1. WIlliam Duke of Normandy sending Ambassadors to King Harold to deliver up the Crown of England to him and to Marry the Dukes Daughter Herald returned him this Answer Si de filia sua quam debui in uxorem ut asserit ducere agit super Regnum Angliae mulierem extraneam inconsultis Principibus words of a large extension used in those times by Historians me nec debere nec sine grandi injuria posse adducere noverit Malmesbury that antient and famous Historian recites it thus Quae dixi de puellae nuptiis referens de Regno addebat praesumptuosum fuisse quod absque Generali Senatus Populi Conventu Edicto alienam illi haereditatem juraverit 2. William the Son of H. I. being dead Rex legalis Conjugii nexu olim solutus ne quid ulterius inhonestum committeret Consilio Radulphi Cantuar Pontificis Principum Regni quos omnes in Epiphania Domini sub uno Londoniae congregavit decrevit sibi in uxorem Atheleidem filiam Godfredi Ducis Lotharingiae 3. King John being Divorced the new Queen was Crowned de communi assensu concordi voluntate Archiepiscoporum Episcoporum Comitum Baronum Cleri Populi totius Regni 4. H.
against untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors with a new Proviso and the Bill for severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties Surrey and Sussex being left out The Bill for Councellors Fees was read the third time M r Doctor Huick and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for the River of Lee with some Additions and Amendments Sir Walter Mildmay Sir Thomas Smith Sir John Thynne M r Wilson Master of the Requests M r Heneage M r Recorder M r Mounson M r Yelverton and M r Bembrick were appointed to meet here in the Chamber to Morrow in the Morning at seven of the Clock to consider of the Bill for Councellors Fees On Tuesday the 29 th day of May M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill of the Queens Majesties General and free Pardon The Committees for Examination of Fees or Rewards taken for Voices in the House reported That they cannot learn of any that hath sold his Voice in this House or any way dealt unlawfully or indirectly in that behalf and thereupon M r Norton declaring that he heard that some had him in suspition justified himself and was upon the question purged by the Voice of the whole House and their good opinion of him and of his honest and dutiful dealing and great pains taking in the service of this House were in very good and acceptable part declared and affirmed by the like Voice of the whole House The Bill for shooting in Hand-Guns and Harquebuses was read the third time and passed the House And the Bill also for the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon was read Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for Councellors Fees the third reading being yesterday accomplished was now passed upon the Question All the Bills passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others After which the manner of the Conclusion of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Verbatim as followeth About four of the Clock this Afternoon the Queens Majesty being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Highness the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness General and free Pardon And prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Sessions Whereupon her Highness gave her Royal Assent unto forty one Acts and so Dissolved this present Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Session of Parliament held in An. 14 Reginae Eliz. although it lasted no long time yet it containeth in it a great deal of extraordinary matter touching the Proceeding of the House in the business of the Scottish Queen and towards the Conclusion thereof touching the Priviledge of the Members of the same and that which doth yet somewhat the more enlarge and beautifie it is the Addition of Sir Nicholas Bacon's Speech being the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal on the first day of this Session But howsoever this said Session were in it self short in Continuance yet considering the two other following Sessions which with it made but one and the same Parliament and that the longest of any in this Queens time it will not prove unworthy although the aforesaid extraordinary passages wanted of a careful and methodical setting down For the second Session being held in An. 18 Regin Eliz. and the third and last Session in An. 23 Regin ejusdem it was continued by many Adjournments and Prorogations although the House sate but a part of the time until the final Dissolution thereof upon the 19 th day of April in An. 25 Reginae praedictae after it had lasted about the space of eleven years On Thursday the 8 th day of May according to the Writ of Summons that had been sent forth dated at Greenwich the 5 th day of May in the fourteenth year of the Queen the Parliament held Nota That the Writ of Summons is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have born date the 5 th day of May in this fourteenth year and the Parliament to have begun on the 8 th day of May in the same year of the Queen but three days after the Writ of Summons it self which is impossible and it is plain that the day of the beginning of the Parliament cannot be mistaken because according to that all the other days through the whole Journal-Book do follow in due form and order and therefore it is very probable that the date of the Writ is set down contrary to the Originals themselves which were dated the 5 th day of March and that the Clerk might mistake This is likewise very conjecturable in respect that the name of the Month being set down and perhaps abbreviated it was easily written May for March and so this incongruity is only the slip and error of the Clerk The Queens Majesty was doubtless present her self this day in the Upper House and was attended by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but in the Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made who were present this day only it may be guessed by the names of such as the said Original Journal-Book setteth down to have been present on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following which is the first day on which the presence of any Lords is marked according to the usual form by the Clerk of the Parliament Neither can it possibly be collected or gathered by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House or House of Commons whether her Majesty was present or no. For as concerning the Journal of the House of Commons it appeareth only that divers of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons did this day take the Oath in that Case accustomed And therefore the chief ground I had to conclude that her Majesty was this day personally in the Upper House was a Copy I had by me of the Lord Keepers Speech made there this day in the publick Assembly of both Houses in the end of which he gives direction to the House of Commons to Elect their Speaker which shews also that the said Speech in divers Copies thereof is falsly attributed to the eighteenth Year of her Majesty which was but the second Session of this Parliament and no Speaker Elected in it and therefore this Error seemeth only to have grown through the fault of Transcribers and the ignorance of such as suffered so groundless
them once read whereof the last being a Bill for the fortifying of the Frontiers towards Scotland was read the third time and after the conclusion thereof sent down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned the Lord Chancellor and divers Lords met in the Upper House but no Bills were read only the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament to nine of the Clock in the Forenoon the day following On Thursday the 16 th day of February Billa for increase of Mariners and Navigation of England was read prima vice and another Bill also of no great moment had its first reading On Saturday the 18 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act for Explanation of a Statute against forging of Evidences and Writings which with the other three Bills had each of them their first reading On Monday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned the Bill touching the Lord Compton c. was read primâ vice Two Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which are more particularly expressed in the Journal of that House On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Three Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act ratifying an award between some private persons but there is no mention in the Original Journal-Book of any Bill read this Morning but only of the continuance of the Parliament according to the usual form On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Five Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first was a Bill against Counterfeiting of the hands of any of her Majesties Privy-Council and for the avoiding of counterfeit Instruments and Writings under Seal or counterfeiting of the Seal of any Office or Officer which said Bill was read prima vice On Thursday the 23 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the latter being a Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty with a new Addition of certain Amendments was read secundâ vice It should rather seem that only the Addition and Amendments which had been inserted de novo into this aforesaid Bill were now read the second time for the Bill it self had passed the Upper House upon the third reading on Monday the 30 th day of January foregoing and was the same Forenoon sent down to the Commons House and there passed and from them was sent up again to the Lords on Monday the 20 th of this instant February last past with a new Addition and certain Amendments So that the Bill it self which hath once passed the House is never read again but only such new Additions and Amendments as are inserted in it must be passed again de novo because they are of the same nature as if a new Bill were brought in On Saturday the 25 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned was read a Bill touching Fines and Recoveries secundâ vice and another Bill of no great moment had also its second reading Memorand that on this foresaid 25 th day of February being Saturday which day was before given to certain Parties then in difference for assignation of some Errors supposed by them to be in a certain Suit Commenced against them M r Cooper came in for the said Plaintiff and openly before the Lords in the Parliament House assigned the Errors after the hearing whereof the Lord Chancellor with consent of the Lords Ordered that the Plaintiff should have a scire facias returnable either the first day of the next Session or the first day of the next Parliament On Monday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against forging of Evidences and Writings was read primâ vice and another Bill of no great moment was read secundâ vice Then were there two Bills of no great moment sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first had its first reading Three other Bills finally after this were each of them once read whereof the last being a Bill touching my Lord Compton c. was after the second reading committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 28 th day of February the Bill for ratifying an Award in the Chancery concerning Copyhold and Customary Tenants of the Mannors of Moore and Newman Synderich Knyhton and Pensokes in the County of Worcester was read secundâ vice after which also seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth Bill being as the rest of no great moment was after the passing of it sent down to the House of Commons But the first Bill of the said seven which was touching the Inning of Erith and Plumsted-Marsh being upon the third reading concluded yet it was Ordered by the Lords that the same Bill should be staid from the sending of it down to the House of Commons until the Parties had brought in their several Bonds On Wednesday the first day of March the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against forging of Evidences was read tertiâ vice which coming to the Question and the numbers of the Contents on the one side and the numbers of the Not-contents on the other side found to be equal and alike with their Proxies it was Commanded to be laid up in the Desk till the next Parliament On Thursday the second day of March a Bill for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was after the second reading committed to be ingrossed Five Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was the Subsidy Bill the other four of no great moment The Bill also for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy primâ secundâ vice lecta commissa ad ingrossandum There were two other Bills each of them read once this Morning whereof the first being a Bill for the punishment of those who should counterfeit the hands of any of her Majesties Privy-Council or the Seals of others was after the third reading rejected Quod nota because it is feldom seen that any Bill after it hath passed the third reading should be rejected Then was the Parliament continued by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords meeting there were only two Bills read primâ vice whereof the first was the Subsidy Bill and then the Lord Chancellor Adjourned the Parliament unto the day following On Friday the third day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the last was a Bill that Gavelkind Lands within the County of the City of
Exeter may be Inheritable as Lands at the Common Law which was read the third time and concluded Nota That this Custom of Gavelkind by which all the Sons do Inherit the Lands of their Ancestors equally is not only in Kent but hath been also in the City of Exeter in the County of Devon and as is very probable either is or hath been in other parts of the Kingdom The Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon about which time the Lords meeting the Bill for the grant of a Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths by the Temporalty was read secundâ vice On Saturday the 4 th day of March were four Bills of no great moment each of them once read whereof the first being a Bill for the confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy was after the third reading concluded M r Oughtred that was sent for by Order of the Lords made his appearance and to him day was given for bringing of his Councel on Tuesday next and the same day was also appointed for my Lady Marquess of Winchester This Forenoon finally two Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons and one Bill for the assurance of an yearly rent to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield in Fee was tertiâ vice lecta and then sent down from the Lords to the said House of Commons On Monday the 6 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned were two Bills of no great moment read whereof the first was touching Fines and Recoveries On Tuesday the 7 th day of March Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was for keeping of the Queens Majesties Subjects in due obedience there were two Bills also each of them once read whereof the last touching Fines and common Recoveries was after the third reading sent down to the House of Commons This day appeared before the Lords as was appointed the Lord Marquess with his Councel on the one side and the Councel of the Lady Marquess on the other side and M r Oughtred for himself The Lord Chancellor with consent of the Lords after hearing of all the Parties and upon Conference thought it best for the better Expedition of the matter that certain of the Lords if the Parties consented thereunto should have the hearing of all the Controversies betwixt them and of the several accompts of M r Oughtred to which the Parties being called again every one for himself did personally assent only further Order was taken that the Lady Marquess should deliver her assent the next day by her Councel The Lords that were named to hear the said Controversies were these which were chosen by the Parties themselves the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Lord Chamberlain and the Earl of Bedford and for the Causes between the Lord Marquess and the Lady Marquess were chosen by the said Parties the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Buckhurst Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which hour the Lords meeting Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the last being a Bill touching the Lord Zouch was read secundâ vice and then committed to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 8 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the last was Billa for keeping the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience Two Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last being a new Bill for the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland which they returned with a former Bill passed by the Lords before with great deliberation to the same purpose and sent down to them so passed with the same title it gave the Lords much distast because they thought this course to be both derogatory to the superiority of the place and contrary to the antient course of both Houses and as they misliked the disorder so was it their pleasure that this their misliking should be entred in the Records of Parliament lest so evil an Example might hereafter be abused as a precedent Vide plus de ista materia die 10 Martii sequente Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which the Lords meeting four Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first being the Bill for the Grant of a Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa On Thursday the 9 th day of March Five Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first being a Bill for restitution in Blood of Philip Earl of Arundel was read primâ vice On Friday the 10 th day of March were five Bills read the first three being of no great moment had each of them one reading the fourth being a Bill for restitution in Blood of two of the Saintlegers was read secundâ tertiâ vice and then was sent down to the House of Commons with another Bill for the Earl of Arundels restitution which had likewise passed the Lords this Forenoon The new Bill lastly for the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland was read primâ vice Nota That though the Lords did take great offence at the House of Commons for sending up this new Bill unto them and rejecting a former Bill by them passed and sent down to the said House of Commons which had been framed by them to the same purpose without acquainting their Lordships first upon what grounds or for what reasons they had rejected the former Bill as may be seen at large on Wednesday the 8 th day of March foregoing and though their Lordships did then likewise Order that this Act should be Entred in the Records or the Upper House as a thing derogatory to the dignity thereof yet it pleased their Lordships not only on this Friday this 10 th day of March to give the said new Bill its first reading but on Tuesday the 14 th of March following caused it to be read the second time and on the next day following being Wednesday having added certain amendments unto it did finally upon the third reading conclude and pass it Vide Martii 17 postea One Act lastly for the repair of Dover Haven was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons which was read primâ vice On Monday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being an Act for the true making melting and working of Wax with two others were read primâ vice Six other Bills also were read this Morning of which the fifth being a Bill for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney was read secundâ
incorporation of Christs Hospital was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend And the second being the Bill to give her Majesty Authority to alter and new make a Kalendar according to the Kalendar now used in other Countries was read prima vice Four Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill whereby Marriage was declared lawful at all times of the Year Two other Bills were lastly read each of them secunda vice of which the last being the Bill for the grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Haven of Plymouth was read secunda vice The Amendments lastly in the Bill concerning the Hospital of East-Bridge were read prima secunda tertia vice conclusae dissentientibus Vicecomite Mountague Comite Hertford On Wednesday the 17 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The fourth also being an Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto the Lord Hunsdon was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum After which Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife mentioned in the said Bill touching the Lord Hunsdons assurance came into the House and gave their consent to the passing of the said Bill The Bill against the making of Starch was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons and had its first reading After which lastly three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Herrings into the Realm was read secunda vice On Thursday the 18 th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon and the second being the Bill touching the breadth of white Woollen Clothes made within the Counties of Wilts Glocester and Oxon ' with the amendments were each of them read tertia vice conclusae datae servienti Rodes It should seem that these Bills were delivered to him to carry down to the House of Commons although so much be not expressed There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment of which the first being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses and the third for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day were each of them read the first time Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing But what the intent or scope of this Bill was her Majesty refusing to pass it upon the last day of this Parliament cannot be certainly set down it being not now remaining in the bundle of the Acts de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in the Clerk of the Upper House his Office in which said bundle I searched for it on Thursday the 8 th day of October in the year 1629. About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament Proceres tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subscribuntur praesentes fuerunt and so is the entrance of every sitting in the Afternoon upon such continuance ut supra viz. the same form which is used in entring the sitting of the House in the Forenoon which for brevity is in this Collection elsewhere omitted Two Bills had this Afternoon each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and sraudulent Conveyances with certain amendments was read tertia vice On Friday the 29 th day of March five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances with the amendments was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa data servienti Rodes Doctori Barkeley in domum communem deferend Nota That this Bill is said to have been read tertia vice in the Afternoon of the day past which was Thursday and therefore it could not be now read again but to reconcile this difference it should seem the Bill it self had then its third reading and the amendments but the second and this day the said amendments passed upon the third reading but the Bill it self which had passed yesterday was no more read which by the negligence of Mr. Mason at this time Clerk of the Parliament was suffered to be set down thus confusedly in the Original Journal-Book and so to stand On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute made Anno 13 of the Queens Majesty entituled An Act to make the Lauds Tenements Goods and Chattels of Receivors c. liable to pay their debts was read prima secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Three other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons nine Bills of which the first was an Act for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster and the second being for the Subsidy of the Clergy was returned and expedited The Lord Bishop of Exeter shewed unto the Lord Chancellor Sir Francis Walsingham's Letter dated at the Court this 14 th day of March 1584. importing her Majesties licence for the said Bishop to depart home to his charge Nota That it appeareth not by the Original Journal-Book whether the Bishop of Exeter aforesaid absenting himself for this time from the Parliament by her Majesties licence did constitute any Proctor or no and it should seem that he did not because his departure from it was but for some few weeks during the last sitting thereof and that also in open Parliament and as it were with the allowance also of the rest of the Lords On Monday the 22 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales with a Proviso added by the Lords from the Earl of Kent was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa
faithful and loving Subjects an inestimable blessing of God unto her Majesty than in their riches abilities and forces rehearsing this Sentence fide quà m ferro tutiùs regnant Reges He also said that for matter of other affair not of this House he had cause even now very lately to be with the Lords and perceived by some of them that the Lord Chancellor also to Morrow did repair to the Court with twenty others of the Lords at the least And therefore it were very necessary also that M r Speaker also did in like sort go with these of this House And further moved that M r Speaker might be furnished with sufficient reasons to be by himself propounded unto her Majesty in the name of this House for her satisfaction in Answer to the said Message and so not to expect reasons to be objected unto him by her Highness for that he said he knew very well her Majesty looked for these reasons of satisfaction at their hands by way of propounding and not only by way of Answering Whereupon the House did then rise and this Court was Adjourned till Friday next in the Forenoon On Friday the 25 th day of November M r Grice hearing it reported as he shewed that the French Embassadour lately arrived is appointed to have access unto her Majesty to Morrow at the Court and fully perswading himself for his part that the said Embassadour cometh not for any good either to her Majesty or to the Realm and knowing that their manner is in such Cases to be attended for the most part with a Company of Rascals and basest sort of People of their Nation and all the rabble of them accustomed to thrust into the presence of the Prince with their Master moved That for the better safety of her Majesties most Royal Person from peril of any desperate attempt of any of the said French it would please those of this House of her Highness Privy Council to procure that the said Embassador might both be heard and also receive his answer at the hands of her Majesties Council and in no wise to have access unto her Highnesses Person M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that at the last conference of the Committees of this House with the Lords this matter was remembred and considered of amongst them And that the Lord Chamberlain and others at the Court about her Majesty were already appointed to take order for it accordingly M r Serjeant Gawdie and M r Attorney General do bring word from the Lords That where their Lordships according to some former direction had purposed presently to have sent for this House to have attended their Lordships for Prorogation of this present Parliament their Lordships being set had sithence received Letters of her Majesty by which her Highness signified her pleasure to have the same Parliament yet continued two or three days longer for certain weighty considerations moving her Majesty thereunto whereof their Lordships commanded them to advertise this House and further to signifie unto this House that their Lordships had thereupon Adjourned the said Parliament in their House until Friday next and so then the said M r Serjeant Gawdie and M r Attorney departed Which Message being afterwards declared unto this House by M r Speaker this Court was also adjourned until Friday next in like manner On Friday the 2 d day of December upon a motion this day renewed on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Grantham in the County of Lincolne touching a Writ brought against them by Arthur Hall Esquire whereby he demandeth wages of the said Inhabitants for his service done for them in attendance at sundry Parliaments being Elected and returned one of the Burgesses of the said Borough in the same Parliaments for as much as it is alledged that the said Arthur Hall hath been heretofore disabled by this House to be at any time afterwards a Member of this House and also that in some Sessions of the same Parliaments he hath neither been free of the Corporation of the said Borough and in some other also hath not given any attendance in Parliament at all It is ordered that the examination of the state of the Cause be committed to the Right Honourable Sir Walter Mildmay Knight one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Chancellor of her Highnesses Court of Exchequer Sir Ralph Sadler Knight one other of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and Chancellor of her Highnesses Dutchy of Lancaster Thomas Cromwell Robart Markham and Robert Wroth Esquires to the end that after due examination thereof by them had if it shall so seem good to them they do thereupon move the Lord Chancellor on the behalf of this House to stay the granting out of any attachment or other Process against the said Inhabitants for the said Wages at the suit of the said Arthur Hall And the said Committees also to signify their proceedings therein to this House at the next sitting thereof accordingly Vide November 21. antea Mar. 22. postea M r Serjeant Gawdie and M r Attorney General do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that M r Speaker and this whole House do presently repair unto their Lordships into the Higher House Which being then signified unto the House by M r Speaker all the House thereupon repaired thither presently accordingly Prorogued to the 15 th day of February But this Parliament was not at this time Prorogued but only adjourned by the Lords Commissioners appointed upon Saturday the 29 th day of October foregoing and therefore M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons is exceedingly mistaken in this place and M r William Onslow his Kinsman who supplied his place in the next meeting of this Parliament doth likewise erre in setting down the beginning or commencement of the said new meeting upon the foresaid 15 th day of February being Wednesday where he stileth it a Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation whereas it was neither new Parliament nor new Session but a meer new meeting of one and the same Parliament And that these were two new meetings and not two Sessions it is most plain by the very words touching the Adjournment thereof entred in the original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. On Friday the second of December Commissionarii Reginae adjournaverunt praesens Parliamentum usque in decimum quintum diem Februarii prox Secondly There was not any one Act that did pass at the end of this first meeting which I conceive is an inseparable accident unto every Session of Parliament Thirdly and lastly It is very plain that this Adjournment was of the like nature and upon the like occasion with that in the last Parliament in Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. viz. because Christmass drawing near the Members of either House might have liberty to recede into their several Countries for the better relief of the Poor and maintenance of
prayeth the reading thereof which were afterwards twice read and the said Bill and Additions upon the Question were Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill against Election of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices bringeth in the Amendments in all parts reformed according to the Assent of this House therein Yesterday referring the residue of the report thereof to be made unto this House by Mr. Morrice who shewing all the parts of the same the said Amendments and Proviso were twice read and then the same Proviso being ready ingrossed in Parchment and Examined by the Paper-Book was offered to the House for the more speedy expediting of the said Bill which with the Amendments and Proviso aforesaid were read and the said Bill in such sort being put to the question passed accordingly Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the two first were one for relief of the City of Lincoln and the other against Abuses in Elections of Scholars and Presentations of Benefices with the Amendments and a Proviso The Bill concerning the Almeshouse of Lamborn in the County of Berks was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Alford Mr. Hill Mr. Morrice Mr. Graston Mr. Francis Moore and others who were appointed to confer presently in the Committees Chamber Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being against the false packing of Hops was read the third time with the words Authority Royal inserted in the Bill twice read and these words also this Act to continue to the end of the next Session of Parliament thrice read but this Bill was upon the question dashed Mr. Doctor Carew and Mr. Poole did bring from the Lords the Bill for the better assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the free Grammar School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent before passed this House and sent up to their Lordships and now passed also by their Lordships with some Amendments therein offered by them to this House The Bill against the Erecting and maintenance of Cottages in former sort amended together with the Proviso to the same Bill being all the third time read passed upon the question accordingly On Monday the 24 th day of March M r Anderson was licensed to depart about her Majesties Service Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning Glass-Houses was brought in by M r De-la-bar one of the Committees in sort as it was delivered unto them and thereupon being twice read was after sundry Speeches and division of the House Ordered to be ingrossed viz. with the Yea one thirty five hundred and with the No forty three M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill touching Captains and Souldiers shewed that the Committees have met and conferred the Bill with the old Laws already in force and finding many imperfections both in the old Laws and also in the new Law offered by the said Bill shewed forth a Note collected of the same imperfections and also of sundry sharp and dangerous Points in both the same Laws and especially in the said later Law which was thereupon then read accordingly M r Comptroller one of the Committees in the Bill against excess of Apparel shewed likewise the meeting and travail of the Committees in the same Bill with some amendments thought fit by them to be added to the said Bill which amendments were also then read in the House and refered to be further considered of afterwards and more fully and advisedly compared with those Laws which are already in force The Bill for continuation and perfecting of divers Statutes had its third reading and after some Speeches and Motions for some Reformations and Additions was passed upon the question without any such Reformation or Addition at all Five Bills were sent up to the Lords at two several times this day the first four being of no great moment by M r Treasurer and others of which the last was the Bill for the continuance and perfecting of certain Statutes and the fifth touching the Gaging of Casks and other Foreign Vessels was sent up by M r Comptroller and others which said Bill had passed the House this very Morning a little before it was sent up M r Tasborough one of the Committees in the Bills concerning Jurors and Freeholders shewed that the Committees have met and had conference together about the same Bill and having used also therein the privity and advices of the Judges and also of some of her Majesties Learned Council have thought good to make a new Bill for that purpose and so offered the same new Bill and prayed the present reading of the same which was thereupon then read accordingly And afterwards upon a further Motion the same was read again for the second reading and Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed M r Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Awberry do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray Conference with some of this House in the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and in the Bill against Excess of Apparel this present day at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Council Chamber at the Court. Which being signified unto this House by Mr. Speaker It was Ordered thereupon that the former Committees in both the said Bills should attend their Lordships at the said time and place And the names of the Committees in both the said Bills were read by the Clerk And that Mr. Morrice one of the said Committees in the said Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers should shew unto their Lordships the great imperfections conceived by this House in the same Bill and also the reasons if their Lordships should require it and else not without any further Conference or reply unto any answer to be made by their Lordships unto the said Reasons of this House so as before to be rendred After which the aforesaid Doctors did bring from the Lords the Bill touching forcible Entries with amendments which lately passed this House and was sent up to their Lordships and thereupon the same Bill was referred over to be further considered of touching the same amendments unto Mr. Morrice Mr. Harries Mr. Atkins and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Harries who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at four of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall Thomas Shuter and Humfrey Wall returned into this House Burgesses for the Borough of Lemster in the County of Hereford are for their special and necessary businesses licensed to depart On Tuesday the 25 th day of March it was Ordered upon the question that both the Learned Councel of the Lord of Warwick and of George Ognell do attend this House to Morrow in the Morning and that the Serjeant of this House do make the said Earl of Warwick privy unto the same Mr. Treasurer reported that he and the residue appointed by
Thursday the 8 th day of December on Wednesday the 11 th day of January on Saturday the 4 th day of February and all other the days which were very many in which any Committees were nominated On Thursday the 10 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the taking away Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh against the taking away of Women against their wills unlawfully was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons and thereupon read primâ vice The Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord La Ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating of the matter with certain Learned Counsellors in the Law brought before the Committees of the said Lords that the place which he claimed in the Order and Rank of the Barons was due unto him viz. next after the Lord Willoughby of Eresby Which Report being made to the House and the voices of all the Lords being demanded the opinion of the Committees was allowed by the consent of all the Lord Windsor only excepted And the Lord Keeper was required to acquaint her Majesty with the determination of the same House and to know her pleasure concerning the same Vide concerning this Business of the Lord La Ware on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing and on Monday the 14 th day of the same November ensuing The Lord Treasurer made a motion to the House that for as much as the Journal-Books kept heretofore by the Clerks of the Parliament seemed to have some error in them in misplacing the Lords so as it was doubted how the same might be of true Record That it would please the Lords to take Order that the said Books that from thenceforth should be kept by the Clerk of the Parliament may be viewed and perused every Parliament by certain Lords of the House to be appointed for that purpose and the List of the Lords in their Order to be subscribed by them taking unto them for their better information the King at Arms. And that this Order might begin this present Parliament On Saturday the 12 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the taking away of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made Anno 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their wills unlawfully was read secunda vice and committed Nota That because the Committees during all this Parliament were only Peers and Members of the House and that the Judges with her Majesties Learned Councel as see more on Monday the 7 th of this instant November foregoing were always appointed to attend upon them and never nominated as joint Committees with them therefore the names of them are for the most part omitted as not worth the inserting or observation On Monday the 14 th day of Novemb. to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the 13 th year of the Queens Majesties Raign concerning Tellors Receivors c. was read primâ vice This Bill was brought into the House instead of the former Bill concerning her Majesties speedy satisfaction against Accountants c. which was on the 7 th day of November foregoing read secunda vice and referred to Committees by whom the said Bill having been thought upon the debating thereof too full of doubts and difficulties Order was given by them to her Majesties Attorney General to draw a new Bill viz. the Bill aforesaid which Bill was presented by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury first of the said Committees in the behalf of the said Committees A Proviso was thought fit to be added to the Bill concerning the taking away of Women unlawfully and was also twice read The Earl of Shrewsbury excuseth the Lord Marquess his absence for want of health The Lord Treasurer moved the House that such Lords as were absent from the Parliament and had not sent their Proxies and such others as had made their appearance in the beginning of the Parliament and have sithence neglected their Attendance may be admonished to reform the same On this said 14 th day of November 1597. upon the Petition of the said Lord La Ware exhibited unto her Majesty concerning his place in the Order of the Barons of Parliament and with her Majesties commandment and direction presented unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present Parliament the 5 th day of this present Month of November and referr'd the same day upon the reading unto the Committees as is before recorded in the Session of the same day the said Committees having at the time and place appointed assembled themselves and advisedly considered of the said Petition and of all arguments that were brought and alledged both for the Petition and against it did resolve and determine that in their opinions the said Petition of the Lord La Ware was just and that the place which he sought was due unto him viz. to have his place betwixt the Lord Willoughby of Eresby and the Lord Berkeley being the same place which his great Grandfather held heretofore as appeareth by Record Of which resolution and determination Report having been made by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing in the Session of the same day as before is recorded and the same being allowed and approved by the consent of the Lords Temporal and Spiritual then present in the House it was thought meet and ordered that her Majesty should be made acquainted by the Lord Keeper with the opinion and resolution of the House Which having been performed by his Lordship and her Majesty having allowed of the proceedings of the House and of the determination of the question touching the place of the Lord De la Ware as hath been declared unto the House by the Lord Keeper It was and is agreed and Ordered by her Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that the Lord De la Ware should be brought into the House and placed in the room and order before-mentioned to have his place and Voice betwixt the Lord Willoughby and Lord Berkeley Which was accordingly done on this said 14 th day of November The said Lord De la Ware being brought in his Parliament Robes unto the place aforesaid by the Lord Zouch supplying the place of the Lord Willoughby and by the said Lord Berkeley in their Robes Garter the King of Arms attending them and doing his Service according to his Office On Tuesday the 15 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for taking away of Clergy from Offenders against a certain Statute made Anno 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking
away of Women against their Wills unlawfully together with the Proviso annext unto it by the consent of the House was read tertiâ vice and afterwards sent down to the House of Commons that the Proviso there might be considered of And so the Parliament continued till Saturday the 19 th day of November at nine of the Clock On which day the Bill touching the School of Sevenoake was read primâ vice Report was made to the House by the Lord Treasurer what had been done by the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivors which said Bill had been yesterday committed upon the second reading although the mention of the said reading and Commitment be purposely omitted and the same Committees appointed to meet again at the former place to Morrow at four of the Clock in the Afternoon to make perfect the said Bill to be presented again to the House The absence of the Lord Marquess and the Earl of Huntingdon were severally excused for want of health by two of the Temporal Lords and the like excuse was delivered by the Bishop of Norwich for the Bishop of Chichester's absence Report was made by the Lord Keeper that the Earl of Essex received not his Writ of Summons until yesterday the 17 th day of this Month through the negligence of the Messenger unto whom the same was delivered and now his Lordship wanting health to give his Attendance desireth to be excused of his absence the Earl of Worcester and the Earl of Southampton testifying his sickness Introductum est breve Radulphi Domini Evers quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno On Monday the 21 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign was read primâ vice Several Writs of Summons of the Earl of Huntingdon and Rutland were brought in Relation was made by the Lord Treasurer upon the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivors c. of the doubts and questions that had been moved and debated among the Committees touching certain Provisoes and Causes thought on for the Amendment of the said Bill And the said Committees appointed by the House to meet again for further Conference to Morrow at the little Chamber near the Chamber of Parliament presence Vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing On Tuesday the 22 th day of November Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the establishment of the new Colledge of the Poor of Cobham in the County of Kent was read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment were each of them sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act formerly sent to them with a Proviso from this House thereunto added concerning taking away of Clergy from Offenders that take away Women against their Wills unlawfully The Committees upon the Bill of Tellors Receivors c. meeting at the little Chamber near the Chamber of the Parliament presence and conferring on the Bill and the Provisoes that were thought on and came in question among them by reason of sundry doubts that were moved did refer the Bill to her Majesties Attorney General to be reviewed Vide more of this on Saturday the 19 th day and on Monday the 21 th day of this instant November foregoing On Thursday the 24 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Monday foregoing Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better Explanation and confirmation of the Act made in the thirteenth year of her Majesties Reign was read primâ vice This Bill was reviewed by M r Attorney by the appointment of the Committees on Tuesday the 22 th day of this instant November foregoing who then referr'd it unto him and was now brought in instead of the former Bill touching which see before on Saturday the 19 th day and on Monday the 21 th day of November aforesaid And the fifth being the Bill for the repeal of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for the encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was read tertiâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Southampton the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Mountjoy and M r Justice Walmesley M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney were appointed to attend the Lords Vide November 7 th antea On Saturday the 26 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching Tellors and Receivors was read the third time and commanded to be ingrossed A Serjeant at Arms was appointed to be sent for William Wood and one Stephenson a Serjeant in London who Arrested Edward Barston the Lord Chandois Servant contrary to the priviledge of this House The Bill for the repeal of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for the encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was brought into the House by the Committees whose names see before on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November foregoing with an Amendment thought sit to be put into the Bill And the Amendment being thrice read the Bill was appointed to be fixed in a Schedule to the Bill On Monday the 28 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing The Bill for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Tellors and Receivors was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney General and D r Stanhop The Bill that was sent from the House of Commons with this Title viz. An Act for the Repeal of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was after the third reading returned again to the said House for their consideration and allowance as well of another Title thought more fit by the Committees to be given thereunto viz. An Act for encrease of Mariners and for maintenance of the Navigation repealing a former Act made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign bearing
Journal-Book of the Upper House viz. Die Mercurii viz. undecimo die Januarii to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing Domini tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurar Angliae Comites Comes Essex Magnus Marescallus Angliae Comes Nottingham Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbr ' Comes Salopiae Comes Darbiae Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen ' Episcopus Peterburgen ' Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen ' Episcopus Landaven ' Episcopus Cestren ' Episcopus Cicestren ' Barones Dominus Hunsdon Camerarius Dominus Zouch Dominus La Ware Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Scroope Dominus Stourton Dominus Sandes Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Darcy de Chich. Dominus North. Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Compton Nota That though I do usually observe in all these Journals never to have the presence of the Lords transcribed but at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least a new Session yet I have observed it here though but at the beginning of a new meeting in respect that the presence of the Lords before set down at the beginning of this Parliament on Monday the 24 th day of October being much greater than that of this day could not serve to be any rule for the presence of those that attended at this new meeting which is for the most part the chiefest reason why the presence of the Lords is marked on the first day of the Parliament or on the next day from the first on which they be noted if through the Clerk of the Upper House his negligence as it often happeneth it be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the said day A second but less material cause why I have their names transcribed is to see the due places and precedences of the Lords Temporal This Wednesday as soon as the Lords were set it should seem that the Earl of Essex having been created Earl Marshall the 28 th day of December last before this instant took his place according to his said Office viz. next after the Earl of Oxon Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward and Lord Admiral The said Earl Marshal having taken his 〈◊〉 as aforesaid was added to the Committees in the Bill intituled An Act for encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm who were appointed on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing His Lordship also was added to the Committees upon the Bill for the relief of the Poor in times of extream dearth who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber at Whitehall upon Friday the 13 th day of this instant January following by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Committees upon the Bill concerning Broakers and Pawntakers were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber c. upon Friday the 13 th day of this instant January following by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage was read secunda vice and referred to the same Committees which are for the Bill for encrease of people c. who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber c. on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and to meet at the same time and place Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for recovery of three hundred thousand Acres of waste Marish and watery grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Bishop of Peterborough the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich and the Bishop of Chichester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord De la Ware the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Darcie of Chich the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst and M r Justice Gaudie and M r Serjeant Drew to attend their Lordships All which were appointed to meet at the little Chamber near the Chamber of Parliament presence on Saturday the 14 th day of January following in the Morning before the House sit On Thursday the 12 th day of January the Bill entitled An Act for encrease of People for the service and defence of the Realm was returned unto the House by the Committees who were appointed on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and a Motion was made by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the House of Commons for the better perfecting of the Bill Whereupon M r Attorney and M r Doctor Stanhop were addressed to the House of Commons with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall to Morrow being the 13 th day of this instant January ensuing by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Certain Select Committees who were chosen by the House of Commons concerning the said Bill for increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill and desired in the mean time to have delivered unto them in writing such Objections as their Lordships do make unto the said Bill to the end they might be the more ready to deliver their Opinions and resolutions at the said meeting The Lords having considered of this Motion thought it unfit and not agreeable to the Order of this House to deliver the same in writing And therefore agreed that answer should be made that if upon verbal Conference they should remain unsatisfied touching the said Objections then they should have the same delivered unto them in writing for their further consideration thereof Which answer was presently notified to the said select Committees And in the mean season the Judges were required to set down the said Objections in writing that it might be in readiness for the said Committees of the House of Commons if upon the verbal Conference they should not be satisfied Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January following Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the making of Bayes in the Counties of Essex and Suffolk was read secundà vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Rich the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Baron and M r Attorney General to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this Attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November
unto by the House of Commons with a competent number of them The Councel Learned on part of George Ognell and on the behalf of the Hospital of Warwick c. were openly heard in the House Vide concerning this business on Monday the 16 th day Tuesday the 17 th day and Friday the 20 th day of this instant January foregoing Excuse was made by the Bishop of London for the Bishop of Norwich in regard of his unhealthiness The Committees in the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. who were appointed on Saturday the 21 th day of this instant January foregoing returned the same to the House with some Amendments by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chief Justice required to consider of the Amendments Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was presented by Sir Robert Cecill and others On Tuesday the 24 th day of January Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was that no person robbing any House in the day although no person be therein shall be admitted to have benefit of Clergy The Bill Entituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was returned by the Lord Marshal second of the Committees with sundry Amendments thought meet to be added which Amendments were presently twice read and after consideration thereof had and much debate whether the Bill should so pass or no it was thought necessary to be recommitted to the said Committees who were appointed on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing and the time and place appointed presently at the little Chamber near the Parliaments presence The Bill was brought in again with the same Amendments and no Alteration and thereupon commanded to be engrossed The Bill entituled An Act for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloths to be made within the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was returned to the House by the Earl of shrewsbury the first of the Committees who made Report that upon hearing of both Parties and upon due consideration of the reasons and allegations by them alledged the Committees thought there could not be any further proceedings in the same Whereupon a new Bill was presented bearing this Title viz. An Act touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex which was presently read primâ vice The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. was brought into the House by the Lord Chief Justice with certain Amendments It was debated in the House whether Amendments upon a Bill being brought into the House by the Committees may afterwards be contradicted or spoken against by any of the Committees but the doubt was left for the present unresolved Vide on Thursday the 12 th day of November in the Parliament de Anno 43 Regin Eliz. where this doubt was cleared and ruled affirmatively On Wednesday the 25 th day of January Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last was the Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown Sir Moile Finch to be heard by his Councel Learned to Morrow openly in the House concerning this Bill Four Bills of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was read tertiâ vice The Earl Marshal informing that the Committees upon the Bill for the lawful making of Bays c. who had been appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing had not time at the day formerly assigned and moving for a new day to be appointed for their meeting the House appointed that the said Committees should meet for that purpose this Afternoon at the said Earl Marshals Chamber Notice was given to the House by the Lord Treasurer that the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellors Receivors c. had a meeting with a select number of the House of Commons to confer upon the Objections and Answers touching that Bill Yesterday in the Afternoon according to the Order taken the 23 th day of January But for as much as the said number of the House of Commons at the meeting affirmed that they had no Authority to undertake the debating of the said Objections and Answers otherwise than to speak as they should see cause as private men and desired that the Answer might be communicated to the said Commons in writing the Lords therefore sent down the said Answers to the House of Commons by the hands of M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop The Committees upon the Bill concerning the draining of Waste and Marish grounds and who had been appointed on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing were appointed to meet at the Earl Marshals Chamber this day by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Amendments upon the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. were twice read And thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded to be engrossed On Thursday the 26 th day of January the Bill to enable Edward Mollineux to sell his Lands for the payment of his debts c. was returned by the Earl Marshal the second of the Committees by reason of some of the Kindred of the said Edward Mollineux who opposed themselves against the Bill A Motion was therefore made that the Cause might be ended by some Arbitrary Course Whereupon the Parties on both sides were called into the House and moved to that purpose unto which they assented and made choice of the Earl of Rutland the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Mountjoy who were appointed to meet this Afternoon Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 17 th day of December foregoing Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General The Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. was returned by the Earl Marshal the second of the Committees with a Proviso thought meet to be added which Proviso was twice read and commanded to be engrossed The Bill to reform deceits and breaches of
same to the Committee again On Monday the 7 th day of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the relief of poor Prisoners in Ludgate was read the first time Mr. Serjeant Harries made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for the Assurance of the Joynture of the Countess of Sussex who were appointed on Thursday the third day of this instant December foregoing and of some Amendments and a Proviso added by the Committees The Amendments in the Bill with a Proviso touching the Joynture of the Countess of Sussex were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for confirmation of the Assurances of the Lands of Sagebury aliàs Sedgebury to Samuel Sandyes Esquire and John Harries Gentleman and their Heirs was read the first time M r Snigg one of the Committees in the three Bills touching Cloths and Clothiers who were appointed on Wednesday the 18 th day of November foregoing declared that by Order and direction of the same Committees he hath reduced and drawn the three said Bills into one Bill reformed in the Abuses committed amongst Clothiers and prayed the reading The Bill for the true making and working of Woollen Cloths was read the first time Mr Doyle one of the Committees in the Bill touching Fairs and Markets not to be kept on the Sunday who were appointed on Friday the 4 th day of this instant December foregoing brought in the Bill with some Amendments added by the Committees The Amendments in the Bill prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be kept on the Sunday were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching the Assize of Fuel was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London Sir Jerom Bowes Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill touching Charitable uses c. was read the second time and committed to the former Committees who were appointed on Saturday the 28 th day of November foregoing and M r Serjeant Harries and others were added unto them who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock M r Bacon said I am Mr. Speaker to tender unto this House the fruit of the Committees Labour which tends to the Comfort of the Realm I mean the Merchant which if it quail or fall into a Consumption the State cannot choose but shortly be sick of that disease It is inclining already A certainty of Gain is that which this Law provides for and by policy of Assurance the safety of Goods assured unto the Merchants This is the Loadstone that draws him on to adventure and to stretch even the very punctilio of his Credit The Committees have drawn a new Bill far differing from the old the first limited power to the Chancery this to certain Commissioners by way of Oyer and Terminer The first that it should only be there this that only upon appeal from the Commissioners it should be there finally arbitrated But lest it may be thought for vexation the Party Appellant must lay it in deposito c. and if tryed against him to pay double Costs and Damages We thought this course fittest for two reasons First because a Suit in Chancery is too long a course and the Merchant cannot endure delays Secondly because our Courts have not the knowledge of their Terms neither can they tell what to say upon their Causes which be secret in their Science proceeding out of their experience I refer the Bill both old and new to your considerations wishing good success therein both for the comfort of the Merchants and performance of our duties The Act is Intituled An Act touching Policies of Assurances used amongst Merchants Sir Edward Hobbie said It was the good pleasure of this House to refer the consideration of an Information exhibited against a Member of this House one of the Burgesses for the Town of Leicester viz. Mr. Belgrave the scope and purpose of which Information pretendeth an abuse to be done to the High Court The Gentleman himself was at the Committee and did acknowledge the substance of the suggestion but denied the circumstance Some of the Committees censured it to be an enormous fault to invest himself for so the words of the Information are in a blue Coat but others were of a contrary opinion because they were satisfied upon allegations alledged that it was done ad redimendam vexationem which had been offered to him and so he thought to right himself these wayes Besides I am to inform the House that this Information was put in sedente curiâ and therefore thought by the Committees to be some disgrace to the same And because this Gentleman should not take benefit of this Pardon therefore the Information as I said is now put in sedente curiâ which I wish the House to note And because he should be debar'd of remedy against the party he hath therefore caused the same to be exhibited in M r Attorney Generals name May it please the House because he desireth to be heard and being now here that be may speak himself in that he told the Committees he had some special matter to deliver unto you and if he shall be found culpable he would most willingly abide your censures But because other Statutes were to be read of importance this was refer'd over till some other time Vide December 17 th postea An Act for the continuance of divers Statutes and repeal of some others was read the second time M r Francis Moore desired it might be read as also the Exposition of the Justices upon the Statute of 39 Eliz. of Rogues which if it please the House he thought fit to be annext to that Statute M r Bacon said There were never yet any more than two Articuli the one Articuli super Chartas when the Sword stood in the Commons hands the other Articuli Cleri when the Clergy of the Land bare sway and that done upon deliberation and grave advice I beseech you remember these are done by Judges and privately perhaps in a Chamber and shall we presently without scanning or view Enact them It befits not the gravity of this House And so after a long Speech dasht it The Bill touching payment of Debts upon Shop-Books lately pass'd in this House was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others After sundry Motions and Arguments made against An Act made 39 Reginae Eliz. touching Lands given to charitable uses it was upon the question Ordered that the said Act should be repealed And upon another question whether the said Act should be repealed in the particular new Bill exhibited this Session of Parliament or else in the general Bill touching repeal of Statutes it was agreed by the House that it should be repealed in the general Bill of
and was again recovered within a quarter of an hour It was said he had a spice of the Falling Sickness He was carried forth of the House by the Serjeant of the same and three of his men into the outer Room It was strange to hear the diversity of opinions touching this accident some saying it was Malum omen others that it was Bonum omen c. But as God will so be it Thus far of this days passages out of private Journals some other business of this day doth now follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self viz. Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords unto this House two Acts one Intituled An Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon and another Act for the granting of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty before passed in this House Mr. Secretary Cecill made Report of the meeting and travel of the Committees in the Bill that came from the Lords Yesterday Intituled An Act for reformation of deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars and that for the errors in the form of digestion of the same it is thought not fit in the opinion of the Committees to be any further dealt in at this time and so resolved of in the Conference had with the Lords M r Hackwell made a Motion that the Speaker might say something touching the transportation of Ordnance that seeing the Bill in the Lower House is fallen into an everlasting sleep and that we knew not thereof before this day he could not be blamed for that which he could not have spoken before this time but nothing was replied or done The Subsidy of the Clergy was sent in a Roll according to the usual Acts to which Sir Edward Hobbie took Exceptions because it was not sent in a long Skin of Parchment under the Queens Hand and Seal So it was sent back again and then the other sent On Saturday the 19 th day of December about nine of the Clock the House came together this day being appointed to be the last day of the Parliament M r Speaker moved the House to know their Pleasures if they should Adjourn the House till one of the Clock which was assented unto yet as they were rising M r Herbert Croft said M r Speaker though perhaps my Motion may seem unseasonable at this present yet I beseech the House consider with me a Speech made Yesterday that consisted of four parts the scope whereof it being M r Hackwell's Speech layes open the dangerous mischiefs that come by transportation of Ordnance and that due reformation thereof may be had for restraint of private transporting I would only put the House in mind and you also M r Speaker that the Gentleman which Yesterday moved it desired that M r Speaker might say something thereof to her Majesty in his Speech to be inserted Which I do again desire the more earnestly because our Bill is fallen as he said into an Everlasting sleep and we have now no remedy but by her Majesty M r Speaker said If it please you upon the Motion of the Gentleman made Yesterday I mean to say something therein both for your satisfaction and performance of my duty And therefore this matter shall need no further to be moved With which the House rested well satisfied and so arose But it is to be noted that the Speaker said not one word in his Speech to her Majesty touching that matter which was greatly murmured at and spoken against amongst the Burgesses that the House should be so abused and that nothing was done therein Post Meridiem An Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Herbert The sending up of this Bill of the general Pardon being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the rest of this Afternoons Passages as also the Conclusion of the Parliament do now follow About one of the Clock divers Gentlemen met together at the House whither the Speaker came and after the Privy-Council where sitting till past two of the Clock they went to the Upper House and stayed there at the Gallery Door above half an hour and at length the Door was opened and the Lords of the Upper House being all set and her Majesty under a rich Cloth of State the Speaker went to the usual place at the Bar where after three Reverences made and the like done in their times by all the Commons the said Speaker amongst other things in his Speech presented her Majesty in the name of the said House with the Gifts of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths although he somewhat mistook the manner of it in the delivery Unto which the Lord Keeper having Answered in her Majesties name with thanks Dissolved the Parliament after her Majesty had given her Royal Assent unto nineteen publick Acts and ten private FINIS An Alphabetical TABLE Directing to the principal matters contained in the JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A. ABsence of a Peer to be with licence from the Prince whereas of a Commoner from that House only p. 539. 543. The reason of absence ought to be signified to the House by one of the Peers and not by other Information p. 605 Acts how passed by the Sovereign p. 35. Acts of Grace how ibid. How Acts are transcribed and certified into the Rolls ibid. All the Acts at one Session passed by the Lord Chief Justice by vertue of Letters Patents from the Queen p. 389 Addition Vide Amendment Adjourn why the Lords commonly adjourn for several dayes at the beginning of a Session p. 270. The form of Letters Patents to certain Lords to adjourn the Parliament p. 317. The Sovercign may adjourn the Parliament as well as the Parliament adjourn it self p. 318. An Adjournment maketh no new Session as a Prorogation doth ibid. The Parliament adjourned by the Queens Commissioners without a particular Commission p. 382 Amendments of Bills by the Lords sent from the Commons how made p. 20. They use to be written in paper ibid. and p. 26. When a Bill has once passed the Lords and is sent down to the Commons if these make additions or amendments thereof the Lords upon the return of the Bill read them only and not the Bill it self p. 271. The Lords having ingrossed Amendments to a certain Bill in parchment the Commons will not allow of them but return the Bill with the Amendments to have these writ in paper p. 534 A Bill sent from the Commons receiving Amendments and Additions in the House of Lords the Orders of this House will not permit that the Lords should consent to any alterations of such Amendments or Additions by the Commons p. 537. If one Committee differ from the rest in some Amendments of a Bill he may give his reasons of such dissent to the
The Bill to revive a Fair at Lynn Regis in Norfolk which three last mentioned Bills were each of them read prima voce The Bill to make a Chappel in Caermarthenshire to be a Parish Church The Bill to restore in Blood the Sons and Daughters of Ed. Lewkenor Esq The Bill touching the Marriage of the Duke of Norfolk The Bill for making Ecclesiastical Laws by 32. persons The Bill for the Assizes and Sessions to be kept at Stafford And the Bill for the allowance of Sheriffs upon their Accounts On Tuesday the 21 th day of March A Proviso and certain amendments annexe I by the Commons to the Duke of Norfolks Bill were read Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the sirst being the Bill to revive a Fair at Lynn Regis was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been sent from the Commons Yesterday Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords being set the Bill for ratification of the marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and the Lady Margaret now his Wise and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure with a new Proviso added by the Commons conclusa est being read tertia vice dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopis Londin Winton Landaven Cestren Carleol Abbate de Westm. The Bill for restitution in blood of the Sons and Daughters of Ed. Lewkenor Esq was read prima secunda tertia vice conclus ☞ Quod nota That this Bill was read thrice at one time The Bill for the making of a Chappel in Caermarthenshire to be a Parish Church The Bill that the Queens Highness may make Ordinances and Rules in Collegiate Churches Corporations and Schools The Bill for Assizes and Sessions to be kept in the Town of Stafford And the Bill for the assurance of Lands parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to divers Patentees of King Edm. the Sixth were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the two days foregoing Vide consimilit on Wednesday the 15 th day of February foregoing On Wednesday the 22 th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and the Bill for the Assurance of Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to divers Patentees of King Ed. VI. being the 6 th was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Marchion Winton Episcopis Londin Winton Wigorn. Landaven Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Dominis Stafford Dadley North Abbate de Westm. The Bill for restitution of the sirst-Fruits and Tenths and Rents reserved Nomine Decimae and of Parsonages Impropriate to the Imperial Crown of this Realm was returned from the House of Commons conclus The Bill for restoring the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and for repeal of divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary with a new Proviso annexed by the Commons was read prima secunda tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopis Londin Winton Landaven Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Abbate de Westmonast Here also we may note the perverse obstinacy of these Popish Clergy-men who having before opposed in vain the passing of the Bill on Saturday the 18 th day of this Instant March foregoing do here likewise do their uttermost to stop even the Proviso which was added unto it by the House of Commons And yet how just and equal this Bill was see my Animadversion upon the said 18 th day of March when the said Bill passed The Bill to continue the Act last made against Rebellious Assemblies was committed to the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Lord Rich and the Lord North. The Bill lastly for Admitting and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops and concerning Tanners and selling of Tann'd Leather were each of them read prima vice Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made an 23 Hen. 8. touching the conveying of Horses Geldings and Mares into Scotland The second that carrying of Leather Tallow or Raw Hides out of the Realm for Merchandize should be Felony was read prima secunda vice The third touching Leases to be made by spiritual persons was read prima vice And the last for revoking divers Licenses granted for divers things prohibited by the Law of the Realm The Bill for Admitting and Consecrating of Archbishops was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons The Bill lastly for the Assizes to be holden in the Town of Stafford was delivered to the Queen's Attorney and Sollicitor to be carried into the House of Commons On Thursday the Bill for the Assizes to be holden in the Town of Stafford was returned from the House of Commons concluja The Bill touching Tanners and selling of Tann'd Leather was read tertia vice conclusa with certain amendments to be put to it after which it was deliverd to the Queen's Attorney and Sollicitor in Domum Communem deferenda Et postea introduct à Domo Communi conclus The Bill for the Admitting and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops was read tertia vice conclus And the Bill that carrying Leather Tallow or Raw Hides out of the Realm shall be Felony was read tertia vice conclus dissentiente Domino Lumley The Bill touching Leases to be made by Spiritual persons was read secunda vice The Bill lastly for the Explanation of the Statute against the Ingrossing of dead Victuals with a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent by the Queen's Attorney and Sollicitor to the House of Commons In which Bills sending down because both the manner of writing the said Proviso and the subscription of the Lords under it do differ from all ordinary proceedings if the Bill had passed the Upper House without a Proviso therefore I have caused the whole manner and form thereof to be added to a like president in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons an 39 40 Regin Eliz. Decemb. the 20 th Tuesday although there be no mention thereof made in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on this aforesaid present Thursday the 23 th day of March but because it is difficult to conjecture the express manner of the Lord's Proceedings at this time therefore I can only apply the imitation of that president to this present occasion by probability The Lords having added a Proviso
Majesty also in peril whom O Lord preserve which being warned you may easily foresee and provide for And this is all that at this time I have to say And therefore here to make an end her Majesty is contented according to your Petition to grant her Royal Assent to such Ordinances and Laws as have been devised and agreed upon by you in such order and form as by the Clerk of the Parliament according to the antient Order shall be read and declared I have said After the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Queen's Majesty did doubtless give her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed at this Session but neither the foresaid Speech nor the passing of the said Acts are at all mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and therefore as the said Speech was transcribed out of a Copy thereof I had by me so is the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as now passed supplied here according to a pattern or Platform thereof set down in the Original Journal-Book of the same House in an 39 Regin Eliz. which may very well serve in this place in respect that matters of form and course do seldom or never differ The Clerk of the Crown standing up did first read the Titles of all the publick Acts to every one of which allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Upper House read these French words following viz. La Roigne le veult i. e. The Queen wills it Then were read the Titles of all the private Acts to each of which that passed the said Clerk of the Upper House read the Queens Answer in these French words following viz. Soit faite come il est desire i. e. Be it done as it is desired These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty did forbear to allow the Clerk of the Upper House read in these French words following viz. La Roigne s'advisera i. e. The Queen will advise upon it Then in the third place after the Titles of all the publick and private Acts were read and the Answers to them as aforesaid then the said Clerk of the Crown standing up did read the title of the Bill of Subsidy and then the Clerk of the Upper House standing up likewise did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following viz. La Roigne remercye ses loyaulx subjects accept leur benevolence aussi le veult i. e. The Queen thanks her loyal Subjects accepts their benevolence and also wills it The said Clerk having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Title of her Majesties Pardon by the Clerk of the Crown as aforesaid pronounce in these words following the Thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament assembles an nom de touts vous autres subjects remercient tres humblement vostre Majestie prient à Dieu vous donner en santè bonne vie longue i. e. The Prelates Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled in the name of all your other Subjects most humbly thank your Majesty and pray to God to give you in health a long and happy Life The manner of her Majesties Royal Assent being thus transcribed according to the Pattern of the said President in the end of the Original Journal-Book an 39 Regin Eliz. now followeth the Dissolution of this present Parliament by Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper upon her Majesties Commandment which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following Nicolaus Bacon miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae tune praesent is praesens hoc Parliamentum dissolvit The Acts being thus passed her Majesty retir'd and put off her Parliament Robes and so returned to her Court at Whitehall ☞ Nota That Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House did after the Parliament ended transcribe out all such Acts as passed and certified them into the Rolls and did at the end of every publick Act transcribe the French words ensuing La Roigne le veult Being the same words which the Clerk of the Upper House doth usually and now did pronounce in the same House upon her Majesties allowance of each publick Act as aforesaid But as for the private Acts there was some more and greater Ceremony observed in the transcribing and Certifying of them into the Rolls by the said Clerk of the Upper House which although it be omitted in the end of the Original Journal-Book of this present Parliament an 1 Regin Eliz. yet I have caused to be supplied according to the form of a draught thereof set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House an 39 Reginae ejusdem which may very well serve to be supplyed and added unto the end of this present Journal in respect that matters of form do seldome or never differ in which I have only caused the direct times and persons to be sitted to this said foregoing Journal At the head therefore of every such private Act so certified into the Rolls as aforesaid was doubtless written in Latin as followeth In Parliamento inchoat tent apud Westm. die Jan. An. Regni serenissimae atque excellentissimae Dominae nostrae Elizabethae Dei grat Angl-Franc Hib. Regin fidei defensor c. Primo ibidem continuat usque ad in Octavam diem Maii tunc prox sequent communi omnium Dominorum tam spiritualium quam temporalium communitatis consensu Regiae Majestatis tunc praesentis assensu inter alia sancitum inactitatum ordinat stabilitum suit sequens hoc statutum ad verbum ut sequitur viz. And at the foot or end of every such private Act were these ensuing words in Latin likewise added as the said foregoing president doth very certainly infer Ego Franciscus Spilman who was Clerk of the Upper House in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Armiger Clericus Parliamenti virtute brevis supradict dominae nostrae Reginae de Certiorand ntihi direct hiis annex certifico superius hoc scriptum verum esse tenorem Actûs Parliamenti supradicti in eo breve express In cujus rei Testimonium Sigillum nomenque meum apposui atque subscripsi Dat. die Anno Regni supradict dominae nostrae Reginae c. THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 1 Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th day of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May An. Dom. 1559. THIS Journal of the first Parliament of her Majesty is not
occasions Licensed to depart On Wednesday the first day of March the Bill for false using of Linnen-Cloth and the Bill for Gavelkind for Thomas Browne and George Browne were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against Cancellations of Recoveries was read the first time And the Bill for allowances to be made to Sheriffs being read the second time was as it should seem committed to M r Comptroller and others The Bill also for Ecclesiastical Laws to be made by thirty two persons And the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of London to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy were each of them read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill also for recognition of the Queens Highnesses Title to the Crown of this Realm was read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly for restitution in Blood of the Lord Grey and the Bill also for restitution in Blood of Sir James Crofts were each of them read the second time The Bishop of Winchester in proper person required the Copy of the Bill exhibited here touching his Lands which was granted And further to bring in his Answer and Counsel on Saturday next at nine of the Clock On Thursday the 2 d Day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Gates was read the second time The Bill to revive a Fair at Linn-Regis at Candlemas was read the first time And the Bill for changing the Parish Church of Avernant in Wales And the Bill for Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Ingrossers and Forestallers of divers Victuals was read the first time The Bill for searching and sealing Woollen Cloths was read the second time Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others of which one was the Bill for recognition of the Queens Highnesses Title to the Crown of this Realm The three Bills for restitution in Blood of John Lord Grey Sir James Crofts and Sir Henry Gates had each of them their third reading and passed the House The Bill lastly concerning the Confirmation of the Bishoprick of London to the now Bishop of London was read the first time On Friday March the 3 d the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Edward Lewkenor and three of his Brethren and six of his Sisters And the Bill against often buying and selling of Horses and Mares had each of them one reading The Bill for the true Garbling of Feathers The Bill that Leases of Benefices shall not be charged with payment of Tenths And the Bill against ingrossing of dead Victuals called Monopoly were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Assurance of Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of London to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy The Bill for the Gavelkind Lands of Thomas Browne and George Browne And the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge ..... M r Mason required that the Counsel of the Patentees for the Bishop of Winchesters Lands may be here to morrow to hear what the Bishop and his Counsel will say which Request was granted by the House M r Sollicitor coming from the Lords declared that ten of this House shall attend certain of the Lords to morrow for the Proviso in the Bill of Treasons Six Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge and another for Gavelkind Lands On Saturday the 4 th day of March four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill for the Assurance of Hartlebury and Wychenford to Sir Francis Jobson and Walter Blount severally The Bill for the reviving of the Act for the carrying of Horses into Scotland And that for the Restitution of Robert Rudston were brought from the Lords by D r Vaughan John Cheeseman one of the Burgesses of Rumney in the five Ports for his business was Licensed to be absent The Bishop of Winchester in proper person opened his Title to the Mannors saying they had been parcel of the Bishoprick by a thousand three hundred Years and required this House of Justice The Queens Atturney hearing the talk of the Bishop required for the Queen that he might be heard for the Queen touching certain Lands late parcel of the said Bishoprick and Day was given as well to M r Atturney as to the Bishop to be here on Monday next at half an hour before nine of the Clock M r Chancellor of the Dutchy complained that M r White had called him a Witness not to like the Book of Service M r White answered that M r Chancellor said he wished the Book to be well considered of But for that the House doth take that Mr. White did mistake him therefore Mr. White standing asked him forgiveness which Mr. Chancellor did take thankfully On Monday the 6 th day of March the new Bill for Artificers in the County of Kent to dwell in Towns was read the first time Divers Arguments were had touching Cancellation of the Records in the Chancery for the late Bishop of Winchesters Lands and the Examination thereof was committed to Mr. Comptroller and others The Queens Attorney for that the Bishop of Winchester had brought Learned Counsel with him desired they might say their minds whereby Mr. Attorney might fully Answer and the Bishop said that his Counsel was not yet instructed wherefore Mr. Attorney Answered the effect whereof was that the Appeal made by Gardiner was not of effect For that in the Commission at his Deputation was contained cum appellatione remota And so the Grant made to King Edward the Sixth by the Bishop ne point d'effect Mr. Noell and Mr. Bell of Counsel with the Patentees declared in effect for the Patentees as Mr. Attorney had shewed for the Queen On Tuesday the 7 th day of March three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last being the Bill that Executors shall make the Supervisors privy to the performance of a Will was committed to Mr. Chamberlain as it should seem to be considered of The Bill touching the late Bishop of Worcesters Lands to Sir Francis Jobson and M r Blount was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed The Bill for carrying of unwrought Cloths of 6 l over the Seas was read the second time The Bill to revive a Fair at Linn Regis the day after the Purification of our Lady was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill for preservation of Woods being read also the second time was committed The Bill touching the ingrossing of dead Victuals for a Monopoly And the Bill for Gerson Wroth born in Stratsburgh to be
Winchester to the Patentees of King Edw. VI. was read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The new Provisoes from the Lords in the Bill for the First-fruits were read the first time and the Proviso from the Lords in the Bill of Treasons was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for allowance of Sheriffs for the Justices Diets and the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Robert Rudston were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill for thicking of Caps in Mills was read the third time and upon the question was dashed The Bill lastly for renewing one of the Fairs at Linn Regis and the Bill for the new Parish Church of Abernant in Wales were each of them read the third time and passed the House Robert Buxton Burgess of Brembre in Sussex was Licensed to be absent for the Duke of Norfolks Affairs On Friday the 17 th day of March the Bill for the Shipping of Woollen Cloaths of 5 l 10 s over the Sea The Bill for Artificers in Kent and Sussex And the Bill against carrying over Sea of Leather Hides or Tallow to be Felony were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that no persons shall be punished for using the Religion used in King Edwards last Year was read the first and second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill that Licenses shall be good but during the Princes Reign was read the second time and Ordered likewise to be ingrossed The Bill for true Answering of Customs and unlading of Goods in the day time was read the first time and as it should seem referr'd to M r Chancellor to be considered Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the Jointure of the Dutchess of Norfolk and another against seditious words and rumours against the Queen had each of them their third reading and passed the House On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Bill against buying of Horses to sell shortly again And the Bill for the Assizes to be kept in the Town of Stafford were each of them read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill against unlawful Assemblies was read the first time and as it should seem committed to M r Smith to consider of it Three Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which one being the Bill for Assurance of divers Mannors late parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to King Edward the Sixths Patentees was upon the Question passed the House The Bill for the Supremacy was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney to be reformed Vid. concerning this Bill on Thursday the 27 th of April ensuing John Malock Burgess for Linne and Robert Moone Burgess for Britport for their several Affairs have Licence to be absent On Monday the 20 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the Assizes and Gaol-Delivery was read the third time and passed the House and was presently sent up to the Lords with divers others by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill that the Queen shall make Rules for Colledges and Schools was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill for continuance of the last Act for Rebellions was read the first time The Proviso sent from the Lords with the Bill of First-Fruits was read the second time And the Proviso and Reformation in the Bill of Supremacy was read the first time de qua vide on Thursday the 27 th of April ensuing On Tuesday the 21 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Tanning and selling of Tann'd Leather was read the first time The Bill against unlawful Assemblies was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed And the Proviso and Reformation in the Bill touching Supremacy was read the second time Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that the Queens Majesty shall make Orders in Collegiate Churches was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others The new Bill against Cancelling of Records by Warrant or otherwise was read the first time Two Bills also had each of them their second reading of which one was the Bill to make lawful the Deprivations of the Bishops of London Winchester Worcester and Chichester in the time of King Edward the VI. The Bill that the Queens Highness shall Collate or appoint Bishops in Bishopricks being Vacant was read the first and second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 22 th day of March the Bill to continue the Act for Rebellious Assemblies The Bill for Collating of Bishops by the Queens Highness and without Rites and Ceremonies And the Bill for Tanners and selling of Tann'd Leather were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller The Provisoes and Additions by the Lords in the Bill of Supremacy and the Provisoes from the Lords in the Bill of First-Fruits were read the third time and passed the House Four other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last was the Bill to revive the Act against Carriage of Horses into Scotland and was read the third time and passed and was with three others sent up to the Lords by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy On Thursday the 23 th day of March it was reported to this House by ..... one of the Burgesses that Mr. Story had not well used himself being a Member of this House to go before the Lords and be of Counsel with the Bishop of Winchester against the Patentees which by the House was taken to be a fault Whereupon M r Story excused himself by ignorance of any such Order And nevertheless had since considered of it and doth acknowledge it not to be well done and therefore required the House to remit it which willingly by the House was remitted Vide touching this business on Wednesday the first day Friday the third Saturday the fourth and on Monday the Sixth day of this instant March foregoing On Friday the 24 day of March for weighty Affairs to be done in this Parliament according to the Example of the Upper House this Court of the House of Commons is according to former Presidents Adjourned until Monday the third day of April next coming But upon what occasion the House of Commons was this day Adjourned doth not at all appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but most probable it is that it was by reason of a disputation had and agitated this
Crows And the Bill to revive the Act against Rebellions were each of them read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that the Queens Majesty shall have divers temporal Lands of the Archbishops and Bishops in recompence of Tenths and Parsonages Impropriate was read the third time and passed upon the Question and Division of the House viz. With the Bill a hundred thirty four and against the Bill ninety The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Howard Jane Howard and Katherine Wife to the Lord Barkley was brought from the Lords by Doctor Lewes and others M r Carnefewe declared to the House that ..... Thrower Servant to the Master of the Rolls did say against the State of the House that if a Bill were brought in for Womens Wyers in their Pastes they would dispute it and go to the Question and that he heard the Lords say as much at his Masters Table and that these words were spoken on Wednesday last before Easter at Lincolns-Inn Whereupon the said Thrower being brought to the Bar by the Serjeant denied these words to be spoken by him and Carnefewe affirmed them whereupon Thrower was Committed to the Serjeants keeping Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 15 th day of this instant April foregoing On Tuesday the 18. day of April the Bill for taking and having of Apprentices and Journey-men was read the first time and as it should seem committed to M r Arnold to consider of The Bill for making of Frizes in length and breadth in Wales was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills had each of them one reading Of which one being the Bill for the Unity of the Service of the Church and Ministration of the Sacraments was read the first time John Griffith Esq Knight for Flintshire in Wales hath License to go home for the delivery of Records at the next County On Wednesday the 19. day of April the Bill for Lading in long Bottoms and for Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church were read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Thursday the 20. day of April the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Henry Howard younger Son to the late Earl of Surrey Lady Jane Howard Lady Katherine Howard Wife to Sir Henry Lord Barkley and Lady Margaret Howard was read the first time And the Bill to revive the Act for killing of Rooks and Crows was read the third time and passed Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the latter being the Bill for the Unity of Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments was read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly for the Watermen of the Thames to have Harque-Buts Shots c. was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to M r Cambden and others not named On Friday the 21. day of April the Bill to carry Corn out of the Realm The Bill that Timber shall not be made for Cole to make Iron The Bill that Hides of four years old shall be made for sole Leather And a Bill for the good Order of Servants of Husbandry and Artificers and their Wages were each of them read the first time On Saturday the 22. day of April for that this day M r Speaker with most of the House were all the Forenoon to hear the Arraignment in Westminster-Hall of the Lord Wentworth for the loss of Calis they sate not till the Afternoon at which time the Bill that Tanners shall convert Hides of Beasts of four years old and a half into soal Leather was read the second time April the 23. Sunday On Monday the 24. day of April the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Howard c. was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the dissolution of Houses of Monasteries Abbies Priories c. erected since the Death of King Edward the VI. was read the first time The Bill lastly for preservation of Spawn and Fry of Fish was read the third time and passed the House And the Bill to take Goods and Merchandize was read also the third time and passed the House upon the Division thereof viz. with the Bill eighty four and against the Bill sixty six Robert ap Hugh Knight of Carnarvonshire had Licence to be absent for his great business at the Assizes at Denbigh on Monday next On Tuesday the 25 th day of April the Bill against burning of Timber into Cole to make Iron in certain places was read the second time Nine Bills were sent up to the Lords by Sir Anthony Coke and others of which one was the Bill for the preservation of Spawn of Fish c. And another was for the Uniformity of Common Prayer for Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments The Bill for Wages of Servants and Labourers And the Bill for Dissolution of certain Abbies Priories Hospitals c. were each of them read the second time The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South was sent from the Lords by M r Read and others Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading being the third and passed the House Of which one was the Bill to revive an Act against unlawful Assemblies and the other for punishment of Sorcery and Witchcraft and Buggery to be Felony On Wednesday the 26 th day of April Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading Of which the first being the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South was read the first time Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for making searching and sealing of Woollen Cloths was read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill restoring to the Crown the Antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing of Foreign Power repugnant to the same with a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords was sent down from their Lordships by Serjeant Weston and the Queens Attorney which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons is therefore supplied out of that of the Upper House On Thursday the 27 th day of April the Bill for searching and sealing of Woollen-Cloths was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up unto the Lords by M r Secretary The Bill for Answering of Customs and laying Goods and Merchandizes on Land was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary with the Bill of Supremacy reformed concerning which Bill of Supremacy Vide on Tuesday the 21 th day on Wednesday the 22 th day and on Saturday the
25 th day of February last past as also on Saturday the 18 th day Monday the 20 th day on Tuesday the 21 th day and on Wednesday the 22 th day of March preceeding Et vide etiam a Note touching this business in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House on Saturday the 29 th day of April foregoing The Bill for Garbling of Feathers Forsings and Flocks was read the third time and passed the House And lastly the Bill that the Queen by Commission may restore spiritual persons deprived was read the first time On Friday the 28 th day of April the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South was read the second time Henry Clifford Gent. Burgess for Bedwyn was Licensed for his Affairs to be absent The Provisoes in the Bill for Suppression of Abbies Priories c. was read the first and second time On Saturday the 29. day of April the Bill for Watermen on the Thames to have Harque-buts c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Uniting of Abbies Priories Nunneries Hospitals and Chauntries founded since the Reign of Queen Mary to be annexed to the Crown was read the third time and passed the House upon the Question and was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill lastly to restore such persons to their Benefices as were unlawfully deprived was read the second time and was thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed April the 30. Sunday On Munday the first day of May the Bill for the Restitution of the Brothers and Sister of the Duke of Norfolks The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South The Bill that Timber Trees in divers places shall not be felled for Cole to make Iron And the Bill that the Inhabitants of Dorking Coxall and Dedham Westbarford c. may make Woollen Cloths there were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly that Watermen of the Thames shall have and shoot in Harque-buts c. was read and upon the Question and Division of the House dashed by the difference of ten Voices viz. with the Bill fifty two and against the Bill sixty two On Tuesday the second day of May the Bill that the Queen by Commission may restore such spiritual persons as have been unlawfully deprived was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Sadler and others with the four other Bills which last passed The Bill lastly for the continuance of divers Acts was brought from the Lords On Wednesday the third day of May three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for carriage of Corn over Sea when Wheat is 10 s Barley 3 s 8 d Beans and Rye at 6 s and Oats at 3 s 4 d the Quarter was read the third time and passed the House On Friday the 5 th day of May the Bill for continuance of certain Acts was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary On Saturday the 6 th day of May the Bill touching Abbies c. was brought from the Lords to be reformed with three Provisoes of their Lordships And the Bill for preservation of Fry of Fish was likewise brought down from the Lords to be amended May the 7 th Sunday On Monday the 8 th of May the Provisoes in the Bill for preservation of the Fry and Spawn of Fish were read the second and third time and passed the House In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty sitting in her Royal Seat the Lords and Commons attending M r Speaker made a Learned Oration Exhibiting the Bill for the Subsidy and the Bill of Tonnage and Poundage and required the Queens Assent might be given to such Bills as had passed both the Houses which Oration being praised and Answered by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Royal Assent was given to forty two Acts and by the Queens Pleasure this Parliament was Dissolved § Henry the VI. 6 Martii An. 31. called a Parliament at Reading 8 Martii Thorpe was Chosen Speaker from thence the Parliament was Adjourned to Westminster till 25. Apr. where it continued till 2. July and then Prorogued till 12. Nov. to Reading again Adjourned till 12. February after till 14. at Westm. During these Adjournments and Prorogations Richard Duke of York having got the Ascendant of the King prepared Habiliments of War at the Palace of the Bishop of Durham Thorpe being Speaker by Command of the King took the Arms whereupon in Michaelmas Term the Duke brought his Action of Trespass in the Exchequer against Thorpe and upon Tryal that Term recovered a thousand pound Damages and ten pound for Costs of Suit and thereupon Thorpe was Committed to the Prison of the Fleet in Execution After all this the Parliament met 14. Feb. and the Duke of York having got a Commission to hold and dissolve the Parliament laboured to keep Thorpe in Prison whom he mortally hated as being faithful to King Henry and having gained his point in the Lords House afterwards the Commons gave up their Speaker which was no sooner done and another Chosen but the Duke by the Assent of the Lords and Commons and after Confirmed by Commission from the King was made Protector of the Realm Thorpe having paid the Debt fled to the Kings Party and after was taken at Nottingham Field from thence sent to Newgate then to the Marshalsey and at last Beheaded at Haryingay Park in Middlesex THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 12 th of January and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof upon Saturday the 10 th day of April An. D. 1563. THIS Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. making but one and the same Parliament with that Session next ensuing in an 8 Reginae ejusdem is replenished with some extraordinary matter besides the accustomed and usual passages of reading committing and expediting of Bills For not only the pompous and solemn manner of her Majestics repairing to the Lords House is set down but the several Speeches also of that Eloquent Orator and wise Statist Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper are supplied at large together with such Interlocutory Speeches as passed in the House of Peers from Thomas Williams Esq the Speaker or Prolocutor of the House of Commons which said several Speeches being not found in the Original Journal-Book of either House are therefore supplied out of several written Copies or Anonymous Memorials of them I had by me especially the latter passages and Speeches both when the Speaker was presented on Friday the 15 th day of January and when this Session of Parliament
Wells a new Writ was required for Wotten-Basset M r Elrington appeared this day with Mr. Serjeant Harper and Mr. Plowden being of his Learned Council who shewing great reasons that the Bill might be rejected certain Articles were delivered in by the Mayor of Guildford for maintenance of the Bill which being read the Copy thereof was awarded to Mr. Elrington Vide de ista materia on the Morrow following Giles Clinket Servant to Sir John Parrot K t of Pembroke Attached in London in a Plea of Debt at the Suit of Francis Parke had the Priviledge of the House granted On Saturday the 30 th day of January Thomas Heneage was returned Knight for the County of Lincoln and also Burgess for Boston in that County and doth appear for Lincoln whereupon a new Writ is required for Boston Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to revive the Act touching Usury an 37 Hen. 8. was read the first time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain to consider of it Mr. Elrington came in with the Serjeant requiring the Order of this House in what sort he should Answer the Articles whereupon the whole matter was committed to twelve of the House to hear the Parties and Proofs on both sides and thereupon to certifie this House of which number it should seem Mr. Sidney was one Vide touching this business on Thursday the 21 th day on Friday the 22 th day and on Friday the 29 th day of this instant January foregoing It was Ordered that every one of this House that cometh after the Prayer which shall begin at eight of the Clock shall pay four pence to the poor Mans Box. On Monday the first day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the Bowyers of London was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Sir William Chester and others not named And the third being the Bill against carrying over the Sea of Pelts and Sheep-Skins not Staple Ware was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Committees in the Bill touching Barwick have had Conference with the Lords and have further day to meet again viz. on Saturday next The Bill to have de circumstantilus to the Juries in Wales and in the County Palatine of Lancaster was read the first time Mr. Comptroller with others was appointed to confer of the Priviledge of this House upon motions made for the Imprisonment of Sir Edward Warner On Wednesday the 3 d day of February the Bill to revive the Statute made for putting down of Grigg Mills was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Chichester and others not named Vide a like President on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing Thomas Dring Burgess of Petersfield in the County of Southampton was Licensed upon the Death of his Uncle to be absent for ten dayes Five other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill against carrying over Sea of Pelts and Sheep Skins not Staple Ware was read the third time and passed And another being for Robbing of Ponds and Stealing of Fish and Conies to be Felony was read the third time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Comptroller and others not named Vide consimile on Tuesday the 21 th day of January foregoing On Thursday the 4 th of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Badgers and Carryers of Corn was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Recorder and others not named Christopher Hillyer Burgess for Heydon in Yorkshire upon the sickness of his Wife was Licensed to be absent On Friday the 5 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for repairing of Waltersey Bank in the Isle of Ely was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. North and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing Sir Henry Jones complained that all his Servants were Imprisoned and prayed Priviledge and after long Arguments for the Priviledge Commission was given to Mr. Sackvill and others to examine and certifie of the matter On Saturday the 6 th day of February the new Bill for setting up of Grigg Mills betwixt Plime and Dart was read the first time A motion was made by M r Winter that the House would have regard by some Bill to the Navy And thereupon the matter as it should seem was referr'd to the said M r Winter and others whose names through the negligence of ..... Seymour Esq at this time Clerk of the House of Commons are here as in all other places of this Journal omitted The Bill for a Subsidy of Lands and Goods and two Fifteens was read the first time On Monday the 8 th day of February the new Bill against Servants robbing their Masters and Buggery to be Felony was read the first time M r Sidney and M r Mason declared that upon Examination the Fray seemed to be begun by Sir Henry Jones his Servants Vide touching this business on Friday the 12 th day of this Instant February following On Tuesday the 9 th day of February the Bill for the Subsidy of Lands and Goods and two Fifteens and Tenths was read the second time but there is no mention made of any thing spoken to it or the referring of it to Committees or Ordering of it to be ingrossed because as may be conjectured the Subsidy Bill being commonly of a great length the Forenoon was far spent by that time it was read through and therefore the Arguments upon it were deferred till to Morrow in which much dispute growing touching the Oath of the Assessors it was again agitated in the House on Friday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 13 th of this instant February ensuing when it was Ordered to be ingrossed and was lastly on Friday the 19 th day of the same Month read the third time and passed the House On Wednesday the 10 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Servants robbing of their Masters and touching Buggery was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed Thomas Walwin Gent. John Rice Yeoman Owen Rice Rice ap Richard and Griffith Lewes and John ap John Servants to Sir Henry Jones Knight for Carmarthen being Attached in London in three Actions of Trespass at the several Suits of George Catchmeyde William Prime and Henry Elmely Gent. move to have a Writ of Priviledge Vide plus concerning this matter on Friday the 12 th day of this Instant February ensuing Divers Arguments were this day in the House upon the Bill of Subsidy and the Oath
Divine Service may be translated into the Welch Tongue was read the third time and passed the House The Bill touching Worsted Woolls and the Bill against Servants imbezelling their Masters Goods were brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill that the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk may sell again course Woolls was read the first time And the Proviso also from the Lords to the Bill for Deer and Hawks was read the first time Five Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being for Killing of Crows was committed as it should seem to Mr. Ashley Another to avoid Nets for Fishing in the Thames was read the second time and committed to Mr. Cure And the last touching the Assize of Barrels was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Grafton and others not named On Monday the 29 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill for Stealing of Deer c. was read the first time and three other Bills being of no great moment were each of them read the second time of which one was the Bill for encrease of Tillage The Bill de Excommunicato capiendo and the Bill for the making of Goals were brought from the Lords by Mr. Attorney Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill touching Tanners Shoomakers and other Artificers occupying Leather On Tuesday the 30 th day of March the Bill to continue the Act for making of Goals was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for the School-House at Guildford was read the fourth time and passed the House Nota That here a Bill was read the fourth time before it passed the House having had its third reading on Thursday the 25 th day of this instant March foregoing of which though there want not other Presidents yet it is rare and worth the observation Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary and others of which one was the last mentioned Bill touching the School-House at Guildford The Master of the Rolls with other Committees in the Cause of Forgery suspected upon Pledal declared great and vehement suspicion to be in Pledall and where Pledall by the Committees was Commanded not to speak with the person of Monkton Farley he notwithstanding sent for him and spake with him in the night which person is likewise suspected whereupon Pledall said he did not remember any such Commandment and thereupon Order was taken that the Committees should put their doings in this Case in Writing and send them to the House this Afternoon and that they should be read to Pledall and he to Answer them either by word or writing Vide touching this matter on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being that the Lord Chancellor may direct Commissions to the Bishop for increase of the Living of Ministers c. was read the first time On Wednesday the last day of March the Proviso to the Bill against Stealing of Fish Deer and Hawks was read the third time and passed And the Bill that Sweet-Wines bought by Strangers shall be brought to Southampton was read the third time and passed On Thursday the first day of April Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second touching Enrollments of Deeds in Lancaster And the last for the relief of the Poor were each of them read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for sale of course Woolls in Norfolk and Suffolk was read the second time but neither Committed nor Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords On Friday the 2 d day of April the Bill for Artificers Labourers c. was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed On Saturday the 3 d day of April Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for the relief of the Poor The Bill for the Assignment of forty thousand twenty seven pound four shillings and two pence half penny to the Queens Houshold with three Provisoes from this House was read the third time and passed and sent to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for taking and destroying of Crows Rooks c. was read the first time On Monday the 5 th day of April Mr. Serjeant Carus and Mr. Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill for Wales The Bill touching Tanners Curriers and Shomakers was read the third time and passed and sent to the Lords by Mr. Secretary together with the Bill for Restitution in Blood of William Iseley The Bill to avoid fraudulent Gifts by any Convicted of Premunire was read the third time and dashed by the division of the House viz. against the Bill eighty nine and with the Bill sixty three Post Meridiem A Proviso to the Bill for Wales was read the first second and third time and thereupon passed the House The Bill to revive the Statute against Servants imbezelling their Masters Goods was read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly that Cloathiers for every Cloth of Woollen or thirty Kersies shall make a piece of Linnen-Cloth of twenty Yards long was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Norton and others not named On Tuesday the 6 th day of April the Bill to avoid fraudulent Gifts and the Bill against Servants embezelling their Masters Goods were sent up to the Lords by Sir Anthony Coke Three Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first being the Bill touching Artificers Servants of Husbandry Labourers and Apprentices was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Order of Bankrupts and their Goods Chattels Lands and Tenements was read the third time and passed the House On Wednesday the 7 th day of April Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Alneager of Lancaster shall Seal the Cloaths there made was read the third time and passed the House and was with two others sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary Post Meridiem In the Afternoon three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for encrease of Tillage and reedifying of decayed Houses of Husbandry was read the third time and passed the House On Thursday the 8 th day of April the Bill touching Hat-makers and Felt-makers to buy Spanish Wooll And the Bill to avoid the dressed Flax brought out of Flanders were
each of them read the third time and passed the House and were with two others sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary The Bill for destruction of Crows Rooks c. and other such Vermine was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill also for paving of Kentish-street near Southwark And the Bill that Sanctuary shall not be allowable for Debt were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Post Meridiem In the Afternoon a Proviso to the Bill for repairing of Goals and a Proviso to the Bill de Excommunicato capiendo were each of them read the first and second time On Friday the 9 th day of April the Proviso added to the Bill de Excommunicat capiend was read the third time and passed the House The Bill also for destruction of Rooks Crows and Coughs and such other Vermine was read the third time and passed the House and immediately sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The new Bill for uniting of Churches in Boroughs or Towns being under the value of twenty Marks was read the first time And the Proviso lastly of this House to the Bill for repairing of Goals was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 10 th day of April It was Ordered that M r Pleddall shall have the Copies of such Examinations and Writings as have been certified into this House by the Master of the Rolls and other Committees and also that M r Francis Newdigate may have like Copies And that such Evidence as M r Pleddall hath delivered to the Committees hands may remain under their Seals and M r Pleddall's Seal in the keeping of the Officer of the Rolls that useth to keep the Evidences there Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day and on Tuesday the 30 th day of March foregoing The Bill for repairing of Goals was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Queens Majesties free and general Pardon Signed with her Graces Hand was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor and immediately read the third time and passed Nota That this Bill touching her Majesties Pardon passed upon the first reading whereas other Bills do never pass till after the third A Proviso sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords touching the Bill of Bankrupts And the addition to the Bill concerning Purveyors were read the first second and third time and passed the House In the Afternoon about three of the Clock the Queens Majesty sitting in her Royal Seat M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration rehearsing divers Laws made by divers Queens of this Realm and requiring the Queen to Assent to the Acts past both Houses and presented to her Majesty the Book of Subsidy and the Book of the general Pardon with most humble thanks for the same And the Lord Keeper by the Queens Commandment gave great thanks unto the Nobility and Commons and earnestly required them severally in their Countries to look that the Laws might be Executed And touching the Succession the Queen Commanded the Lord Keeper to declare her Highness device thereof the effect and conclusion whereof was that for the great weight of the matter her Majesty minded to take further advice Vide plus concerning this matter of Succession on Thursday the 28. day of January and on Tuesday the 16. day of February foregoing Then were the several Titles of the Acts read and thirty one publick Statutes and seventeen private were made Laws by her Majesties Royal Assent And then this Parliament was Prorogued until the second day of October next At which second day of October for that the Plague was great in London and Westminster The Queens Majesties Letters Patents of Commission were directed to the Lord Treasurer of England and other Bishops and Lords of the Upper House to Prorogue this Parliament unto the fifth day of October 1564. which was done accordingly in the presence of the said Lords and a few of the House of Commons Mr. Speaker not being there At which fifth day of October this Parliament was further Prorogued by the Queens Majesties Commission Patent unto the 30. day of April the next ensuing M r Speaker not being there At which 30. day of April It was then further Prorogued unto the 4. day of October then next following M r Speaker not being there At which fourth day of October Anno Domini 1565. Anno Septimo Reginae Elizabeth It was then further Prorogued unto the 7. day of February then next following M r Speaker not being there At which 7. day of Feb. 1565. Anno Elizabethae Reginae Octavo It was then further Prorogued unto the 30. day of Sept. then next following THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 8 Regin Eliz. A. D. 1566. which began there after divers Prorogations of the same on Monday the 30 th of September and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 2 d day of Jan. Ann. 9 Regin ejusdem THIS Parliament de An. 8 Regin Eliz. being in Law but one and the same with that held in an 5 Reginae ejusdem An. Dom. 1563. although not Assembled till about three Years after was in the mean time never Dissolved but only Prorogued from time to time by six several Prorogations whereof the two first falling out in the said fifth Year of the Queen are there mentioned as most properly belonging to the first Session of this Parliament although the latter of them be entred at large in the Journal-Book de an 8 Regin Eliz. and the four last of the said fix Prorogations do all here follow before the beginning of this Journal of Parliament of the passages of the Upper House being full of excellent and rare matter as necessary matter of preparation unto it being in Law as hath been observed but the second Session of that former Parliament Assembled in An. 5 Regin Eliz. predictae whereof those two former Prorogations as they do at large appear in the end of the Journal of the Upper House of that fifth year of the Queen were the first of them from Saturday the 10 th day of April on which day that said first Session of this Parliament ended in that fifth year aforesaid to the second day of October next ensuing de an 5. Reginae ejusdem and the second Prorogation of those foresaid two former was from the said second day of October in the said fifth Year of the Queen to the 5 th day of October which should be in an 6 Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1564. upon which foresaid 5 th day of October in an 6 Regin supradictae Annoque Dom. 1564. Prorogatum fuit ulterius praedictum Parliamentum modo forma sequentibus Memorandum quod quinto die Octobris Anno Regni Elizabethae
be not very usual yet there want not Presidents of the same nature as I was assured by Henry Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House upon Friday the 16 th day of April 1630. and that especially in former times as of King Edward the third and others the Lord Keepers place was during his absence for the most part supplied by vertue of the Kings verbal Command and seldom by Commission October the 6 th Sunday On Monday the 7 th day of October An Act to make void fraudulent Gifts Bargains and Alienations made for the deceiving of Creditors was read primâ vice and committed to Justice Dyer Quod nota The Lord Treasurer continued the Parliament until the next day at nine of the Clock On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill that no man killing any person by misfortune at twelve score or longer mark shall therefore forfeit his Lands Tenements or Goods was read primâ vice Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ On Thursday the 10 th day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that no man killing any person at twelvescore prick or longer mark shall forfeit his Goods or Chattels in which Bill for that it toucheth the Queens Prerogative it was thought not convenient to proceed further without her Highness pleasure first known in the same Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona and so every sitting day until Friday the 25 th day of October exclusivè the Parliament was continued in this Form by the Lord Treasurer except Monday the 21 th day and Tuesday the 22 th day of October on both which days the House did sit and Bills were read but in the Original Journal-Book is no mention of continuing the Court by any person which seemeth to have happened by negligence of the Clerk and after the said 25 th day of October on which Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission to supply the place of the Lord Keeper during his Sickness it was continued until Saturday the 9 th day of November ensuing when Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal repaired again to the Upper House and there continued his place till the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament On Saturday the 12 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy for Creditors against Bankrupts was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice Dyer and Justice Southcote to be by them considered against the next meeting Quod nota October the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the taking away of Clergy from Pick-Purses and Cut-Purses was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 15 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the two first the one being the Bill to take away the benefit of the Clergy from certain Offenders for some Felonies for which by the Common Law they could not be denied it was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa And the other being a Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the fault of the Original Writ majore Procerum numero assentientium conclusa est And the said two Bills so concluded were committed unto the Queens Attorney and M r Martin to be carried down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 16. day of October the Lords did meet in the Parliament Chamber and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Treasurer in usual Form until Thursday the 17. day of October On Thursday the 17. day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to Naturalize John Stafford born beyond the Seas was primâ vice lect and the third being against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy against Bankrupts was by the consent of all the Lords concluded On Saturday the 19. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by the Lord Treasurer the Bill for the punishment of the negligence and false return of Writs by under-Sheriffs and Bayliffs was by common consent of the Lords concluded and with two other Bills before concluded was sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Attorney General On Monday the 21. day of October the Bill for annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. One to take the benefit of Clergy from certain Offendors returned exped And another to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching prices of Barrells and Kilderkins On Tuesday the 22. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Northumberland the Earls of Westmoreland and Bedford the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Carlisle the Lord Evers the Lord Rich and the Lord North and to Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus Nota That here a Judge being but an Assistant and a Serjeant being but an Attendant upon the Upper House are made Joint-Committees with the Lords Ut vide plus on Thursday the third day of this instant October foregoing Nota also That an Extraordinary Proxy is Entered in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been introduced this day being as followeth viz. 22 die Octobris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Cuthberti Domini Ogle in quibus Procuratores constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Johannem Dominum Lumley This I call an Extraordinary Proxy in respect that a Temporal Lord did Constitute two Proctors whereas usually they nominate but one and the Spiritual Lords for the most part two and this Proxy of the Lord Ogle's may the rather seem unusual in respect that of sixteen Temporal Lords who were absent by her Majesties Licence from this Session of Parliament there was but one more viz. Francis Earl of Bedford ut vide on Saturday the 9. day of November following who Constituted above one Proxy It is also worth the noting that Robert Earl of Leicester being at this time a Favorite was
matters of Merchandize or Shipping The business which had been disputed of in the House on Thursday foregoing was this day again debated and as it should seem some moved to know whether the Antient Knights and Burgesses still remaining since the last Session in Anno 5 Regin Eliz. ought not to take again the Oath of Supremacy as well as those that were newly Elected and returned Although it were the general Opinion and Vote of the House as may be gathered that the new Knights and Burgesses only should be sworn yet it was committed to M r Secretary Cecill M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Kingsmill and others not named to consider thereof and to certify the House which they did accordingly on the Morrow following On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill touching the ingrossing of Tallow and Kitchin-stuff was read the first time M r Kingsmill one of the Committee appointed yesterday to consider whether the Antient Members of the House which had taken the Oath the last Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. should now have it administred unto them again or whether those only who were newly Elected and returned at the beginning of this present Session and to certifie thereof accordingly made Declaration this Forenoon by the Assent of the said Committee that the former Knights and Burgesses should not be sworn but those only who were newly returned A Motion was made that ..... Gardiner one of the Burgesses of the House remained now Prisoner in the Flect and desired to be restored to the said House whereupon the Master of the Rolls and the Master of the Requests were appointed by the House to repair unto the Lord Keeper in the name of the same House to know the cause of his said Imprisonment and to demand his Restitution To which Question and Request the said Lord Keeper did send his Answer by them on the Morrow following On Wednesday the 9 th day of October Two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill for buying of course Woolls in the North parts The Master of the Rolls who had been sent yesterday with the Master of Requests unto the Lord Keeper touching ..... Gardiner a Member of this House declared from his Lordship that he might be restored to this House again with condition that upon Prorogation or Dissolution of this present session of Parliament he might be Prisoner again Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching ingrossing of Tallow and Kitchin stuff was upon the second reading rejected On Thursday the 10 th day of October Two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the second being the Bill for continuance of divers Acts of Parliament to the end of the next Parliament was read the first time The new Bill also touching Apparel of the Laity and Clergy was this day brought into the House but whether it was read or no cannot certainly be set down The Dean of Westminster who had been appointed on Monday the 7 th day of this instant October foregoing to shew the Priviledges of the Sanctuary of the said Church had further day given him this instant Thursday upon the Motion of M r Speaker until Wednesday next being the 16 th day of this instant October following On Friday the 11 th day of October the Bill that Sussex and Surrey and other Counties never having but one Sheriff may have several Sheriffs was read the first time and under the Title of the said Bill at the bottom of it is written M r Vice-Chamberlain which is all that is usually done also under the Title of any Bill which is committed upon the second reading whether M r Vice-Chamberlain or any other be one of the Committees named such is the imperfect setting down of things in these former times and therefore to what end M r Vice-Chamberlains name should be added in this place I cannot guess unless this Bill were committed upon the first reading as many others have been or else that he brought in the Bill and commended it to the House The new Bill against Informers upon penal Statutes was this day brought into the House and read the first time On Saturday the 12 th day of October the Bill touching prices of Barrells by Coopers as in the Statute Anno 24 Hen. 8. was read the first time Two Bills lastly against Informers upon penal Statutes were each of them read the second time and as it should seem were thereupon committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others On Monday the 14 th day of October Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins sold by Coopers was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed Upon Complaint made by M r Graston against one Philpot a Pursuivant in the Court of Wards touching two Promoters for Extortion the said Pursuivant was sent for On Tuesday the 15 th day of October the new Bill touching Apparel to be worn by the Laity and Clergy was read the second time and as it should seem was thereupon committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Two Bills were brought from the Lords to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney of which the first was the Bill touching Fines and Recoveries and the second was the Bill to take away Clergy from Offenders in certain Cases On Wednesday the 16 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Assurance of Fines and Recoveries to be good from the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. although the Original be imbezelled was read the first time This Morning finally the Dean of Westminster according to the appointment of the House on Thursday last the 10 th day of this instant October foregoing was present at the Bar with his Councel viz. Mr. Edmond Plowden of the Middle-Temple and Mr. Ford a Civilian The Dean himself made an Oration in defence of the Sanctuary and alledged divers Grants by King Lucius and other Christian Kings and Mr. Plowden alledged the Grant for Sanctuary there by King Edward five hundred years ago viz. Dat. in An. 1066. with great reasons in Law and Chronicle and Mr. Ford alledged divers Stories and Laws for the same and thereupon the Bill was committed to the Master of the Rolls and others not named to peruse the Grants and to certifie the force of the Law now for Sanctuaries On Thursday the 17 th day of October the Bill affirming the Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realm was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold moved the House to have consideration of the Queens Majesties late great and extraordinary expences to proportion out some supply accordingly And thereupon Sir William Cecil Knight her Highness Principal Secretary made an Excellent
Bill touching Cutters of Tann'd Leather was read the second time but no mention is made either of committing or ingrossing of it The Bill for several Sherifss to be in several Counties And the Bill to avoid excess in Apparel in divers degrees were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain Robert Ireland Burgess for the Borough of Salop Edward Leighton Esq one of the Knights for the County of Salop were each of them Licensed by the House for their special Affairs to be absent until ..... and so this matter without expressing the certain time breaks off abruptly in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the great negligence of M r Seymour Clerk of the said House although it may very probably be conjectured that this Licence was not granted unto them absolutely but upon condition to return again and attend the service of the House at some certain day prefixed Vide consimile December 7 th postea Upon divers Arguments made that Edward Jones might be sent to the Tower for so using Grey in attaching his Goods tending to the breach of the Priviledge of this House the matter was eftsoons committed to M r Wroth and others as well to provide Surety of Jones against the said Grey until Saturday next and then further to report as also touching an Informer sent to Ward by M r Grafton and removed by Habeas Corpus into the Kings-Bench Vide on Tuesday the 3 d day of December following November the 17 th Sunday On Monday the 18 th day of November William Epse Burgess for Rumney was Licensed to be absent for eight days Vide consimile in die praecedente Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for making of Allom and Copperas by the Lord Mountjoy And the fourth being the Bill to repeal the Act made for prices were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 19 th day of November Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Alneagers Fees of Lancaster and the length breadth and weight of Cottons Frizes and Rugs was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 20 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for places for the keeping of Records in the twelve Shires of Wales was read the first time The Bill for Wollnersh in the County of Surrey was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Frances Cobham in Cooling was read the second time On Thursday the 21 th day of November Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to repeal a Branch in the Act for Watermen upon the Thames And the second touching the Act made for sale of stuff for Apparel not paid for were each of them read the first time On Friday the 22 th day of November Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Felt-makers and Hat-makers was upon the second reading rejected and the fourth and sixth being for wearing of Caps upon the Sabbath or Holy-Days and also that Tryals of Felonies done in Wales shall be at the great Sessions there were each of them read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Crofts and others Richard Wheatley Clerk Attendant upon Sir Henry Cromwell Knight one of the Knights for the County of Huntingdon being Attached by several Bills of Middlesex in several Pleas of Trespass at the Suit of William Marlyn and Michaell Welch required the Priviledge of the House On Saturday the 23 th day of November A Proviso added to the Bill for Bishops in lieu of the Lords Proviso was read the first time The Bill touching Latitats was brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Read M r Thomas Wroth declared John Grey and Edward Jones by Mediation to be agreed and that attachment to be void upon condition that M r Grey should openly in the House promise that he nor any by him should hurt the said Jones when he should come next to the House being now sick of the small Pox and the Recognizance taken not to be certified Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 3 d day of December following On Monday the 25 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Cobham was read the second time The Proviso to the Bill for Bishops in lieu of the Lords Proviso was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Speaker coming from the Queens Majesty declared her Highness Pleasure to be that for her good will to the House she did revoke her two former Commandments requiring the House no further to proceed at this time in the matter Which Revocation was taken of all the House most joyfully with most hearty Prayer and thanks for the same HER Majesty having found by Experience that the desire of the House of Commons in that great business touching the Declaration of a Successor in Case she should die without Issue was like other Passions more easily calmed and quieted by following than resisting did now at length remit unto them as appeareth by this Message brought by the Speaker that freedom of Speech and liberty of discussion which they had formerly made use of without any such allowance and by that means did sooner satisfie their discontent and procure their silence than by any former secret diversions or open inhibitions And though that business only touching the Declaration of a Successor be mentioned here yet both in the first Session of this Parliament in an 5 Regin Eliz. and in the greatest part of this present Session de an 8 9 Reginae ejusdem it was joined with the other great matter of her Majesties Marriage For the House of Commons having in the said fifth Year of her Majestie Petitioned her in their own name only on Thursday the 28 th day of January in the Afternoon both to incline her Royal Person to Marriage and to make Declaration of her next and rightful Successor in default of her own Issue they received from her a Gracious Answer but finding now in this second Session of that Parliament begun and continued above three Years after that there followed no Issue or effect thereupon in respect that her Majesty remained still as far from any likelihood of Marriage as then and that the State of the Kingdom in Case she should die grew every day more dangerous than other in respect of the several pretended Rights to the Crown which now began openly to be disputed and maintained according to the several inclinations and opinions of men Therefore
viz. with the Bill ninety five and against it sixty five The Bill lastly requiring the Impost to be taken away was read the first time On Monday the 2 d day of December Two Bills had each of them their second reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents of Merchant Adventurers at Bristol was Ordered to be ingrossed And the second for the pulling up of Weares and Piles was as it should seem committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which one was the Bill for the Free-School of Southwark and another for the Jointure of the Lady Cobham The Bill touching Fines and Recoveries was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to the Master of the Rolls and others The Bill for making of Allom and Copperas by Letters Patents by Cornelius de Vos and by him assigned to the Lord Mountjoy was read the third time and a Proviso thereunto annexed was read the first second and third time On Tuesday the 3 d day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Office of Town-Clerk of the City of York was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Statute made for Apparel was as it should seem committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others And the second for buying of Woolls in the North parts was committed unto M r Gargrave the like reference see on Thursday the 28 th day of November foregoing And the third being the Bill for carrying over Sea of Rams Sheep or Lambs to be Felony was as it seemeth committed to M r Wilson and others John Grey Esq did this day promise before the whole House that he and his should keep the Peace against Edward Jones and the said Jones promised immediately to withdraw his Action Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 15 th day Saturday the 16 th day and on Saturday the 23 th day of November foregoing Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for making of Steel and Plates for Armour within the Realm was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed It was sinally this day Ordered that the House should be called on Monday next On Wednesday the 4 th of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of Vagabonds and Loyterers was read the first time Three Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed upon the Question of which the second was the Bill for Merchant Adventurers of Bristoll and the third for the Drapers Cottoners and Frizers of Shrewsbury The Bill lastly to take away Sanctuary for Debt was read the third time and upon the Question and division of the House dashed with the difference of seventeen Voices viz. with the Bill sixty and against it seventy seven On Thursday the 5 th day of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Town-Clerk of York was read the third time and Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for the Drapers Cottoners and Frizers of Shrewsbury and another for Merchant Adventurers of Bristoll The Bill with a little Book Printed in the Year 1562. which was the fourth or fifth Year of her Majesties Reign for the sound Christian Religion was read the first time Vide May the 17 th Thursday an 13 Eliz. in the House of Commons Journal On Friday the 6 th day of December Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the punishment of Offenders in Swearing Drunkenness c. was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others And divers Bills touching Religion of which see fully on Thursday May the 17 th in an 13 Eliz. in the Journal of the House of Commons On Saturday the 7 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the finishing of the Port of Hartlond in Devon was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill confirming the Corporation of the Kings Heralds at Arms and the Bill for the Embroiderers of London were each of them read the second time and committed as it should seem to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Walter Strickland Esq Knight for the County of Cumberland being diseased with the Gout was Licensed to be absent On Monday the 9 th day of December Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to avoid fraudulent Gifts and also Order for Bankrupts was read the second time and as it should seem committed unto M r Seckford and the third for Explanation of the Act of 37 Hen. 8. touching Colledges and Free-Chappels for Leases with a Proviso for Judgments given was read the third time and passed upon the question On Tuesday the 10 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the Bill with a little Book Printed an 1562. for the sound Christian Religion was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Vide May the 17 th Thursday in An. 13 Regin Eliz. sequen in the Commons House Journal M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney brought from the Lords two Bills one for the Stature of Horses and another for Allom and Copperas The Preamble of the Bill of Subsidy after long Arguments was read the first and second time On Wednesday the 11 th day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for pulling up of Piles Weares and Fish-Gates The second for Records to be kept in Wales And the third touching Goal-Delivery in the Counties of Wales and touching Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Proviso and Amendments of the Bill for Informers was sent from the Lords and read the first time and as it should seem committed to M r Seckford to consider of it On Thursday the 12 th day of December Nine Bills had each of them one reading of which the seventh being the Bill that John Stafford born beyond the Seas may be a free Denizen and another for the making of Steel in England were each of them read the third time and passed upon the Question and were with two others sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Serjeant Carus brought from the Lords the Subsidy for the Clergy whereupon the Bill for one
though the Original be imbezelled to which this House had made an Addition and a Proviso for the Heir of the Earl of Kent and were sent up to the Lords by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy The Bill also for repairing of Sea-Marks Marriners and Watermen was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy of Canterbury was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill for engraving of Alneagers Seals by the Graver of the Mint in the Tower of London was read the third time and two other Bills had each of them their second and third reading of which the first was the Bill for the avoiding of excess in Apparel but no mention is made that they passed the House The Bill that Hexamshire shall be of the County of Northumberland and parcel of the Bishoprick of Durham was read the third time and passed upon the Question Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for buying of Woolls out of Caermarthen Cardigan and Pembroke and the third for keeping the Assizes in Lancaster were each of them read the second time and dashed upon the question The Bill against carrying over Sea of Rams Lambs or Sheep alive The Bill against carrying over of Pelts or Tann'd-Leather And the Bill for the Market of Battell to be kept at Battell were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The General Bill to avoid Fairs and Markets on Sunday to the next work-day following was read the first and second time The House being moved with a Commission for Execution of penal Laws Dated the third day of December last appointed divers Committees whose names through the Clerks great negligence are wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons to move the Lords to be a means for the revoking of the said Commission to which their Lordships agreed conceiving with the Commons that Edmond Matthew John Elliot and Robert Reynold the Commissioners nominated and authorized in the said Commission were not fit persons for the Execution of the same On Monday the 23 th day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against carrying over Sea of Rams Lambs and Sheep alive was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill for the Clothing Town of Wonersh in Surrey was read the third time but as yet passed not the House The Bill for helping of Havens and Ports of the Sea was read the second time Seven Bills with three others were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for the making of White and Bay Salt and another for the Subsidy of the Clergy of Canterbury Report being made upon the Bill for Apparel it was upon the question dashed The Bill for continuance of divers Acts of Parliament with Addition for transporting of Grain was read the second time A Report was made upon the Bill for Cloth-making in the Town of Wonersh in the County of Surrey and a Proviso being read the first second and third time thereunto added by the House the Bill was upon the question dashed The Bill for the Queens Majesties Pardon and the Bill for Tonnage-Wares with some words added unto them were brought from the Lords by M r Attorney which said Bill touching Tonnage-Wares to put out Wines c. was read the first time and dashed upon the Question On Tuesday the 24 th day of December the Bill for the Queens Majesties general and beneficial Pardon unto the 26 th day of December in the eighth year of her Highness Reign was read the first time and accepted by the Commons The Bill for continuance of divers penal Statutes was read the third time and passed upon the question and was sent up to the Lords by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy The Bill for the Alneagers Seals to be graved in the Tower was read the fourth time or rather as it should seem some Additions or Amendments thereunto annexed and dashed upon the question The Bill touching Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and Bailiffs of Liberties to take Oaths was read the third time and upon the Question dashed The Bill for continuance of Statutes was brought from the Lords to take away all the Provisoes and Articles besides only the continuance of the Acts was upon the question and division of the House dashed viz. with the Bill sixty one and against it ninety seven M r Attorney and M r D r Lewis brought word from the Lords that their Lordships had Adjourned their House until Monday next Whereupon M r Speaker with the advice of this House Adjourned the Parliament until Saturday next and then it was Ordered that the House should then be called to see and consider the defaults On Saturday the 28 th of December the House was called and Adjourned until Monday then next following On Monday the 30 th day of December the House was called again and Adjourned further till Thursday next following because the Lords above had so Adjourned their said House On Thursday the second day of January the Defaulters were called and twelve allowed by the House to make default D r Huicke sent in word from the Lord Keeper that the Lords had Adjourned their House until one of the Clock in the Afternoon The Almes given this day by the House for relief of the Poor amounted to the sum of nineteen pound ten shillings to be paid by M r Henry Knolles Sen. and M r Grimston two Members of the said House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon about three of the Clock the Queens Majesty sitting in the Upper House of Parliament the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons with Richard Onslow their Speaker having had notice thereof repaired thither where the said Speaker made an Excellent Oration of above one hours length tending to the expression of the great goodness of Almighty God shewed unto this Realm by the quiet Government of the Queens Majesty and shewed also the strength of Laws And after thanks to the Queens Majesty for her Gracious Pardon offered the Subsidy and the Pardon And when the Lord Keeper had made a short Answer to the special points of the Oration of the Speaker and that the Queens Majesty had given her Royal Assent to thirty four Acts viz. nineteen publick Acts and fifteen private immediatly it pleased her said Majesty to declare in a most Excellent Phrase of Speech and Sentence that she seemed not pleased with the doings of the House of Commons for busying themselves in this Session with matters which did not appertain at this time unto them intimating doubtless thereby their too violent and eager prosecution of those two great businesses touching her Marriage and Declaration of a Successor in default of Issue of her own Body but in the end of her said Speech she concluded with
was the Bill for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the second for the Town of Southampton The Bill touching Licences and Dispensations was committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Huick The Bill lastly for limitation of the Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second touching the Limitation of Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Vaughan Four Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Fugitives over the Seas the second for Incorporation of both Universities with a new Proviso added by the House of Commons and certain Amendments which were thrice read and assented unto the third for reviving and continuance of Statutes and the last touching corrupt Presentations The Bill touching severance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in regard it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Wednesday the 23 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month foregoing The Bill against Fugitives was sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale with the latter Proviso put out and all other Amendments Three Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first against Fugitives over the Seas and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for John Tirrell Esq and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Two Bills were sent at several times unto the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was returned with a new Proviso and certain Amendments added by them of the House of Commons And the second also for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Berkeley and the Lady Katherine his Wife was returned with certain Amendments and a Proviso added thereunto Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords meeting the Bill for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was read tertiâ vice with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto by the House of Commons and Assented unto by the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 29 th day of May the Bill touching the Queens Majesties most Gracious General and free Pardon was read primâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Six Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being for the continuance of the severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties and the second to make the Lands Goods and Chattels of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts were each of them returned conclusae The Bill of the Queens Majesties general and free Pardon was returned conclusa Note that Robert Bowyer Esq who succeeded Sir Thomas Smith in the place of Clerk of the Upper House in An. 6 Jacobi Regis in his Abridgment of the Journals of the said House during the Queens Reign hath in this place upon the sending up of the aforesaid Bill of Pardon left this Animadversion following viz. It seemeth the Clerks negligence that the sending of this Bill to the Lower House is not set down in the Journal-Book also by entrance of the returning thereof it seemeth that the same was sent single alone by special Messengers and not with the other six Bills Nota also That all the following passages of this Afternoon excepting the entrance only of the Dissolution of the Parliament are all transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and the Speech of Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper was transcribed out of a Copy thereof which I had by me as was also the manner of her Majesties passing the several Acts supplied by my self according to the ordinary use of a former President thereof None of all which passages excepting that only touching the entrance of the Dissolution of the said Parliament are at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House But do now come to be supplied out of those other above-mentioned Manuscript Monuments and in the first place out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following About four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queens Majestie being sat in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Majesty the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness general and free Pardon and prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Session This being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 39. a. now follows the Answer of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at large which he made unto the Speakers Speech being transcribed out of a Copy I had by me M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard and doth very well understand how discreetly and wisely you have declared the Proceedings of this Session in the Nether House for Answer whereof and for the better signification of what her Majesties opinion is both of Parliament men and Parliament matters this is to let you understand her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you that like as the greatest number of them of the Lower House have in the proceedings of this Sessions shewed themselves modest discreet and dutiful as becomes good and loving Subjects and meet for the places that they be called unto So there be certain of them although not many in number who in the proceeding of this Session have shewed themselves audacious arrogant and presumptuous calling her Majesties Grants
further reported that the same matter coming also in Question in the UpperHouse before Committees there at the Suit of Henry Brother to the said Andrew the Committees of the higher House have for great Causes agreed in opinion with the Committees of this House concerning the Deed. Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 28 th day of May preceeding as also on Tuesday the third day Wednesday the fourth day and on Friday the sixth day of this instant June foregoing The Bill lastly for relief of Sir William Harper Knight was read the third time But what further passed this day in the House of Commons doth not at all appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but is negligently omitted by Fulk Onslow Esq at this time Clerk thereof Yet it is most probable that here ended the whole or at least the greatest part of this Forenoons Passages And then this Sessions of Parliament being Adjourned in the Afternoon by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Ex mandato Dominae Reginae as the words of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House are it should seem the said Mr. Onslow did omit to make any remembrance or mention thereof although this Adjournment did add an end to this present Session her Majesty giving her Royal Assent to thirteen publick Acts and four private And the reason why so few Statutes received Life as also that neither the Bill for her Majesties general Pardon nor any Bill of Subsidy passed the Houses at this Sessions was in respect that it was chiefly called for Consultation and deliberation touching the dangers of her Majesty and the Realm by reason of the Scottish Queen against whom the House of Commons did proceed with great earnestness advising her Majesty to proceed to her final Execution although the said advice took not effect nor was pursued by her Majesty until the twenty eighth Year of her Reign THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 18 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1575 which began there on Wednesday the 8 th Day of February after divers Prorogations of the same and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Thursday the 15 th Day of March next ensuing THE Journal of this present Session although there were no Solemnity at the beginning thereof as of a new Parliament yet wanted there not the Return and Entrance of divers Proxies as well extraordinary as ordinary and although through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the Upper House there appeareth little other matter to have been agitated therein than the reading committing and expediting of Bills yet it is plain by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that there was some Entrance by both Houses upon the reformation of divers Abuses in the Ecclesiastical Government and some difference between the said Houses about the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Stourton sent down from the Lords to the Commons Besides this foresaid Journal is not a little enlarged and beautified by the inserting of the Speech at large of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal out of a Copy thereof I had by me which is the rather worth the noting in respect that it was doubtless the last Speech he ever made in Parliament for before the third Session of this present Parliament which was held five Years after the Adjournment of this present Session he died viz. in the two and twentieth Year of her Majesty Anno Domini 1579. and so Sir Thomas Bromley Knight succeeded Lord Chancellor before the said Session in Anno 23 Reginae ejusdem which was the third and last Session of this instant Parliament The first Session whereof was held in Anno 14 Reginae praedictae by which means this was the longest Parliament continuing about eleven Years of any during her Majesties Reign and was not Dissolved until the five and twentieth Year of her said Reign containing also in it three several Sessions whereas no other consisted of above two at the most Memorand quod die Mercurii octavo die Februarii Anno Regni excellentissimae ac metuendissimae Dominae nostrae Dom. Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae Fidei Defensatricis c. Decimo octavo quo die post varias ac diversas Prorogationes praesens haec Sessio Parliamenti tenta habita fuit apud Westmonasterium Domini tam Temporales quam Spirituales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt The Queen was not present because as it hath been observed this was no new Parliament but the Lords met of Course Nicolaus Bacon Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Thesaurarius Angliae Comites Comes Lincoln Admirallus Comes Sussex Dominus Camerarius Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Kanc. Comes Darb. Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Huntingdon Comes Warwick Comes Southampton Comes Bedford Comes Pembroke Comes Hartford Comes Leicester Comes Essex Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Hereford Episcopus Elien Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Covent Litchf Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Bangoren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Oxon. Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Assaven Barones Dominus Abergavenny Dominus Audley Dominus Dacres Dominus Stafford Dominus Gray de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Darcy Dominus Wentworth Dominus Mordant Dominus Cramwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Pagett Dominus Howard Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus Hunsdon Dominus S t John de Beltso Dominus Buckhurst Dominus de la Ware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheyney Dominus Norris Which are all the Names noted in the Original Journal-Book of this eighteenth Year of the Queen to have been present this Wednesday the 8 th of February These Lords being thus set they fell to their ordinary business without any manner of solemnity this being as hath been said no new Parliament but only the second Session of that Parliament which began in Anno 14 Reginae Elizabethae Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the reformation of the excess in Apparel Hodie returnatum fuit breve quo Henricus Comes Northumbriae praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alteno The like several Writs returned the Earl of Kent and Charles Lord Howard Lord Audley William Bishop of S t Asaph and Henry Earl of Darby Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hord octavâ Although this were but a second session of a former Parliament as hath been said yet were divers Proxies sent and returned of which there being no mention upon what day they were introduced I have caused two
much to the setting forth of your benevolence The first who it is that granted the second the manner of granting the third what it was that is granted As to the first her Majesty cannot forget how this Grant proceeded from the earnest affections and hearty good wills of her loving and obedient Subjects Wherefore her Majesty maketh greater account thereof than Ten Subsidies and so she Commanded me to say unto you Again her Majesty remembreth very well that this Grant was made not by Subjects that never did the like before but by Subjects that have been and continued to be ready from time to time to contribute towards the necessary charges and defence of the Realm which doth greatly commend and set forth she saith this great benevolence of yours And as to the second which is the manner of granting her Highness noteth two things especially the one is universality of consent and can there be a more universal consent than when all agreeing and none denying as this was Nay her Highness knoweth that before her time these manner of Grants passed not but with a great perswasion and many difficulties whereas this was frankly offered without any perswasion or difficulty at all The other is the readiness of granting It is written of Benevolence Bis dat qui citò dat which her Majesty saith may be justly applied to these your Proceedings And to the third which is the thing granted she taketh it to be as liberal as any heretofore hath been granted and therefore hath Commanded me to yield unto you her most hearty condign thanks and withal to let you understand that her Majesty is as willing and desirous to give you this whole Subsidy again as you have been willing to grant it if the necessity of the Realm and your Surety would suffer it And thus much touching the granting of the Subsidy Now as to the due and true Execution of the same I am to exhort and also to admonish you and yet it may be probably said that Persons that have thus bountifully and readily made this Grant wherein and whereby the benevolent minds and hearty affections that have been so manifestly declared in granting that to these persons neither admonishments nor exhortations are due for the true executing of that Grant no more than a Spur is to a Horse that runneth as swiftly as he can Albeit this Argument in reason carrieth probability and likelyhood with it yet former experience hath taught that these Grants have not been so duly and truly executed as they have been benevolently granted After the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Queens Majesty did doubtless give her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed at this Session but neither the foresaid Speech nor the passing of the said Acts is at all mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Her Majesties Royal Assent being given to the said Bills Now follows the Adjournment of this present Session together with the several Prorogations thereupon out of the Original Journal Book of the same Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday the 15 th day of March in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came her self into the Upper House where were also present the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal but the only occasion of her Majesties coming seemeth to have been for the Prorogation of the Parliament which otherwise must have been done by vertue of her Majesties Commission or Letters Patents under the Great Seal And it is the more remarkable because I conceive it is the only President during all the said Queens Reign in which she came to the Upper House in Person to Prorogue a Session the Entrance whereof in the Original Journal-Book of the same House is as followeth Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Prorogavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum Novembris prox futurum After which followed divers other Prorogations until the Assembling of the last Session of this present Parliament in Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. All which are inserted in the Original Journal-Book it self de Anno 18 Reginae ejusdem in the end thereof THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 18 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1575 which began there after divers Prorogations of the same on Wednesday the 8 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Thursday the 15 th Day of March THIS present Journal of the House of Commons containeth in it not only many good Passages touching the ordinary usages and priviledges of the House but is plentifully stored also with divers extraordinary and rare Occurrences touching the maintenance of the Liberties of the House not only from the indignity of private Persons but also against the pressures of the Lords of the Upper House in which also there wanted not the zealous endeavour of the House for reformation of divers Ecclesiastical matters and the remarkable Imprisonment of a Member of the same by themselves in which I have supplied many Passages and Speeches which were wanting in the Original Journal-Book it self in the due places out of several Copies of them I had by me Yet to avoid confusion whatsoever is transcribed out of the said Copies is distinguished by some Annotation or Animadversion both before and after it And lastly it may here fitly be observed that this being but the second Session of the fourth Parliament of her Majesties Reign the House of Commons as did also the Lords of the Upper House sell to their ordinary business upon their first meeting in manner and form following viz. On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Bill that upon Actions upon the Case brought for slanderous words or writings the Country may be traversed was read the first time Peter Wentworth Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Tregony in the County of Cornwall was for unreverent and undutiful words uttered by him in this House of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty sequestred that the House might proceed to Conference and consideration of his said Speech Which Speech I have transcribed out of a Copy I had by me and added it to this Journal viz. M r Speaker I find written in a little Volume these words in effect Sweet is the name of Liberty but the thing it self a value beyond all inestimable Treasure So much the more it behoveth us to take care lest we contenting our selves with the sweetness of the name lose and forgo the thing being of the greatest value that can come unto this noble Realm The inestimable Treasure is the use of it in this House And therefore I do think it
humble Petition unto her Highness for reformation of some abuses yet remaining in the Church and most humbly renewing the speedy consideration thereof unto her Majesties good remembrance at her good will and pleasure did further most humbly beseech her Highness in the name and behalf of the whole State of the Commons of her Realm that her Majesty would at their most humble Suit the rather have a vigilant and provident care of the safety of her most Royal Person against the malicious attempts of some mighty Foreign Enemies abroad and the Trayterous practices of most unnatural disobedient Subjects both abroad and at home envying the blessed and most happy and quiet Government of this Realm under her Highness upon the thread of whose Life only next under God dependeth the Life and whole State and stay of every her good and dutiful Subjects And withal that it might please her Highness to have such good care and regard generally for the maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation the very strength and Walls of her Majesties Realms and Dominions as may seem most convenient unto her Highness most godly wisdom from time to time And so declaring that her Majesties Nobles and Commons having had consideration of her Highness great Charges many ways for defence of her Realms and People against Foreign Enemies and other Rebellious Subjects both already imployed and hereafter to be imployed have granted unto her Highness one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths which they besought her Highness to accept in good part according to their humble Duties and gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness most Gracious general and free Pardon Which done the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment Answering very Excellently and briefly the parts of M r Speaker his Oration did amongst other things deliver her Majesties most hearty thanks unto both Houses for their great and good care for the safety of her Highness Person and also of her Honour good Fame and Dignity not yet comprehending within those general thanks such Members of the House of Commons as have this Session dealt more rashly in some things than was fit for them to do and giving them withal like hearty thanks for the said Contribution of a Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths in that it was granted as willingly and frankly and also as largely and amply and to be Answered as speedily as any other like ever hath been taking the same in as good part as if it had been to her own private use where in very deed it is to be imployed to the general service and benefit of the whole Realm And so giving her Royal Assent to thirty Acts fifteen publick and fifteen private the said Lord Chancellor did by her Highness Commandment Prorogue this present Parliament until the 24 th day of April next coming Nota That all this days Passages with the manner of the Conclusion of the Parliament are wholly transcribed out of the Original Journal Book of the House of Commons and in that respect are here more largely set down than in the Journal of the Upper House and the rather because there is no Conclusion of any Parliament so exactly described in any other of the said Original Journal Books of the House of Commons during the Queens Reign The third and last Session finally of this present Parliament was upon the foresaid 24 th day of April Prorogued again unto the 29 th day of May and was at last after seventeen other Prorogations Dissolved by vertue of her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England in that behalf directed upon the 19 th day of April in the twenty fifth year of her Majesties Reign THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A. Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. which began there on Monday the 23 th Day of November and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1585. after which it was lastly Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th Day of September Anno 28 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1586. THIS Parliament Summoned and holden in the twenty seventh year of her Majesties Reign lasted a long time in respect of the continual sitting of either House for the space of about three Months at two several Meetings between which there intervened only one Adjournment of about forty days space There were no publick matters of any great consequence debated in it but many Excellent Passages for the Power Priviledge and Order of the Upper House may be observed from it At the first Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29 th day of March in Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1585. there passed near upon fifty several Acts or Statutes publick and private from which time it continued until the Dissolution thereof as abovesaid The day before the Parliament began being Sunday and the 22 th day of November the Original Journal-Book setteth down amongst others two unusual or extraordinary Proxies to have been introducted or returned thereon into the hands of the Clark of the Upper House for any Proxy if it be delivered into the hands of the said Clark whether it be before the Parliament begin or after is well returned and it is most likely that these two with some other ordinary or usual Proxies which are here omitted were delivered as aforesaid this Sunday towards the Evening because the Parliament was to begin the next Morning Which said Letters Procuratory are Entred as aforesaid in manner and form following 22 o die Novembris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen ' in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum London Item introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren ' in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Eboracen ' Nota. That here two Bishops did constitute but one Proxy apiece whereas it seldom happeneth that any spiritual Lord nominateth fewer than two But for any further observation upon the Proxies returned this Parliament Vide on Friday the 27 th day of this instant November following On Monday the 23 th day of November the Parliament began according to the Summons Which had been sent forth The Queens Majesty went to this Parliament in her accustomed Pompous and Royal manner being attended first unto the Cathedral Church of Westminst from her Palace of Whitehall by the Lords and others where having heard a Sermon she was afterwards conducted by them in the like Royalty into the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House whither she came about two of the Clock in the Afternoon Nota That the whole manner and form aforesaid of her Majesties most Royal going to this Parliament is set down at large in M r Mills his Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London Anno Domini 1610. pag. 64. The Queen and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being all set in
Chief Baron had not committed any contempt against this Right Honourable Court And further Ordered 13 o die Decembris that the appearance of the same James Diggs by rendring himself into the Exchequer was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds shall be redelivered Provided nevertheless that for as much as the said James Diggs was not Arrested in Execution at the Suit of Richard Howe but was committed after Judgment by the Barons of the Exchequer upon a Reddit se for discharge of his Sureties It is therefore further Ordered by the said Lords that touching the sum of money recovered by the said Howe against the said James Diggs the said Howe and James Diggs shall stand to such Order as the Lord Chief Baron and other of the Barons of the Exchequer shall set down for the same Vide more afterwards concerning this matter upon Monday the 14 th and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December following On Thursday the third day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Tuesday last continued the Bill for fit and convenient places for landing and shipping of Merchandize was read secunda vice and then committed to the Lord Treasurer and others and to the two Senior Barons of the Exchequer Nota That here two Judges who are but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords On Friday the 4 th day of December Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being an Act for the maintenance of Navigation was read prima vice and the second touching the Clothiers of Essex was read prima secunda vice and then committed On Saturday the 5 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh was read secunda vice and committed unto three Earls one Bishop and five Barons which Committees did appoint to hear amongst themselves as well the Parties Owners as Inners touching the same Bill The Bill also concerning the Essex Clothiers which had been sent up yesterday to the Lords from the House of Commons was this day upon the third reading and conclusion thereof sent back again thither On Monday the 7 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills had each of them one reading the first for maintenance of Navigation and the second for increase of Mariners Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one touching the Essex Clothiers the other for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath day was long in passing the two Houses being committed and amendments upon amendments added unto it as Vide afterwards on Tuesday the 8 th day on Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December ensuing as also on Wednesday the third day and on Saturday the 6 th day of March following Vide etiam on Wednesday the 9 th day of this instant December foregoing Whereas the Lord Viscount Bindon moved the Lords for the priviledge of the House for Robert Finnies alledging that he was his Servant the Lords gave Commandment to the Gentleman-Usher to go to the Counter in Woodstreet where the said Robert Finnies then lay upon an Execution and to bring him and the Parties that Arrested him before them And this day the said Lords after the hearing of the Cause thought it not convenient that the said Robert Finnies should enjoy the priviledge of this House as well because he claimed not the priviledge when he was first Arrested nor in the Counter when he was charged with the Execution as also for that he was not a menial Servant nor yet ordinary Attendant upon the said Viscount And further Ordered that the Officers of the Sheriffs of London should take again in Execution the said Finnies and convey him to the place from whence he came and that the bringing of the said Finnies before the said Lords at their Commandment should not be in any wise prejudicial to the Sheriffs or their Officers On Tuesday the 8 th day of December the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read prima vice Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing On Wednesday the 9 th day of December Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the increase of Mariners was read the second time and thereupon committed And the second of the said Bills being for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read the second time and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Darby the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Chester the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Willoughby the Lord Grey the Lord North the Lord Norris the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Windham Nota That here two Judges being here meer Assistants of the Upper House were made joint Committees with the Lords whereas of later times they are always Commanded to attend the Lords Committees of which also there was another Precedent this Morning The Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and primier seisin was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer being Master of the Wards to two Earls Viscount Mountague two Bishops five Barons the two Chief Justices and the Queens Attorney The continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament this day is not at all Entred in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the Clerks negligence On Thursday the 10 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was concerning Sir Thomas Lucy Knight and others On Saturday the 12 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances and another concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others were after the third reading sent down unto the House of Commons A Bill lastly being for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne Esquire and others in Fee-simple was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 14 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day with certain amendments was read tertiâ vice and with another bill of no great moment was sent down to the
horâ consuetâ On Monday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was a Bill for returning of Justices Jurors and for expedition of Trials The Lords Ordered that Edward Fisher and Katherine his Wife should personally appear before them on Wednesday next the 17 th day of this instant February for the better satisfying of their Lordships of their consent to the passing of a Bill Entituled An Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne Giles Flood Christopher Puckering and their Heirs Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant February ensuing The Lords also Ordered that the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron Justice Gawdy and Baron Shute should have the hearing of the matter of the Writ of Error between Akrode c. and M r Whawley On Tuesday the 16 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the continuance of a former Statute Intituled An Act to redress disorders in common Informers upon penal Laws made in the eighteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and had been brought to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Class-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born On Wednesday the 17 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last save one being the Bill concerning the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon At which time as the Lords had Ordered M r Edward Fisher with his Councel viz. M r Serjeant Walmesley and M r Cowper appeared before them The Lords having heard the consent of the said Edward Fisher to the passing of the Bill Intituled Au Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne c. and their Heirs committed again the said Edward Fisher to the Custody of the Warden of the Fleet and further Ordered that the bringing of the said Edward Fisher before their Lordships at their Commandment should not in any wise be prejudicial to the said Warden The said Edward Fisher and his Councel made two Petitions to the Lords the one that the Preamble of the Act alledging the cause of the making of the same Act to be for doubtfulness of his ill dealing because he was judged in the Star-Chamber to have made two false and forged Writings to the prejudice of the said Bargains might be amended and that the same might be taken out of the Act and not to remain in perpetual memory of his shame for ever The second that Serjeant Puckering to whose behalf the said Lands were sold having him and his Lands in Execution upon a Statute of eight thousand pound for not performance of the Covenants of the same yet also enjoying the Lands sold would release him the said Execution and take a new Statute in that behalf to which the said Serjeant Puckering whom the cause chiefly concerned being present by the appointment of the Lords answered as to the first request That if to alter or take out of the said Act the said Preamble being parcell of the Bill and matter passed from the House of Commons to this Honourable House in that form should be no hurt or prejudice to the Bill so passed from the Lower House to the Lords he was well content therewith and therein submitted himself to their honourable Lordships And as to the second Request he Answered That whensoever the said Edward Fisher shall have cleared and discharged the said Lands and Tenements by him bargained and sold as aforesaid of and from all Statutes Staple and Recognizances charges and incumbrances liable or chargeable upon the same then he having a new like Recognizance in nature of a Statute Staple made unto him by the said Edward Fisher of the sum of eight thousand pound for performance of Covenants mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale from thenceforth to be performed unto which Recognizance all the Lands and Tenements of the said Edward Fisher which shall not be sold for the payment of his Debts shall be liable and chargeable and that there were no former Statutes and Recognizances knowledged by the said Edward Fisher to the prejudice of the same he was contented then after that done to discharge the said new Execution having and takeing a new Recognizance in form aforesaid Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 15 th day of this instant February foregoing On Thursday the 18 th day of February Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two first were upon the third reading concluded and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and D r Carey the one being the Bill to explain the Statute concerning Tellors and Receivors c. made An. 13 Reginae Eliz. and the other being for the better relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge within the City of Canterbury Nota That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons sets down a third Bill assented unto and concluded at this time The last of the said Bills touching divers Assurances made by the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Exeter was read secunda vice commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Comiti Sussex Episcopo Exon. Domino Stourton Domino Buckhurst On Saturday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued a Proviso added by the House of Commons to the Bill concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others was read and concluded The Bill also to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and his Wife during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne was read secundâ vice The Lords appointed Monday next in the Afternoon for the hearing of the Cause and have given Order that the Parties shall have warning to be then there with their Councel by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Five other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the well-ordering and governing of the Savoy was read the third time and sent to the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for preservation of Grain and Game with
another Bill against Moor-burning in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and Durham with an amendment added unto it by the Lords were upon the third reading sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and Doctor Ford. Three Bills also had each of them one reading being brought from the House of Commons of which the first was for redress of erroneous Judgments in the Court called the Kings-Bench Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords Assembling themselves two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Glass-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born was read the first time This Afternoon also the Lords having heard the Councel of both Parties touching the Bill Intituled An Act to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and Anne his Wife during the minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne for a more speedy end of the said cause with the consent of the said Parties committed the matter to the hearing of certain of the Lords which should be named by the Parties themselves The Plaintiff Anne did chuse the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Arundell the Bishop of Salisbury and the Lord North and M r Vinion the Defendant chose the Lord Steward the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Exeter and the Lord Buckhurst And further Ordered that the said Lords should end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then to certifie the State of the matter as they found it to the whole House And the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron were appointed to attend the Lords On Tuesday the 23 th day of February Six Bill s of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the furtherance of Justice was read prima vice Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning the Jointure of the Countess of Huntington On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better assurance of her Majesties Letters Patents granted for the better foundation of the Hospital called Sherborn-House was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopo London Domino Darcy Domino Evers the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Gawdy On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents to the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Clare-Hall in Cambridge was read secunda vice but no mention is made whether it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees On Saturday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read secunda vice and committed to one Earl three Lords the Lord Chief Baron and one Judge Where still Nota the Judges are joint Committees with the Lords One Bill also touching Plymouth-Haven was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons And three other Bills of no great moment the first concerning Rochester-Bridge was read secunda vice On Monday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for returning of sufficient Jurors for the better expediting of Trials was read tertia vice and concluded The Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes were appointed Committees to hear the matter between M r Vinion and M r Tredolias Leza and his Wife and Commission given to the said Committees to end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then the Parties with their Councel to be before the Lords at this House upon Thursday next Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. was read secunda vice with certain Amendments and a Proviso added by the Lords On Wednesday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Monday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. with the Amendments and Provisoes added by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjcant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the repairing and maintenance of the Sea-Banks and Sea-Works on the Sea-Coast in the County of Norf. Committees were appointed to hear the matter between the Lord Willoughby and M r Heronden who were chosen by the Parties themselves viz. the Earl of Kent and the Lord Zouch for the Lord Willoughby and Viscount Mountague and the Lord Cobham for M r Heronden And the Lords further Ordered that the said Lords Committees should end the matter between the said Parties if they could Committees lastly were this day Chosen to examine the Record touching passing Amendments of Amendments moved by the House of Commons viz. the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Suff. Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Buckhurst the Master of the Rolls and M r Attorney about the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day to which the House of Commons had added Amendments upon Amendments The Precedents they named were the Bills for Treasons and bringing in of Bulls Acts passed in Anno 13 o of the Queen Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath as hath been before observed was long in passing the two Houses and much debated betwixt them being committed and Amendments upon Amendments added unto it which as appeareth in this place was the cause of some Disputation between the Lords and the said Commons Of the other several Passages of this Bill Vide on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Thursday the 4 th day Saturday the 6 th day and on Saturday the 13 th day of this instant March following Nota also That the Master of the Rolls and the Queens Attorney being no Members of the Upper House are here made joint-Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 4 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands in the Counties of Norsolk Suff. Lincoln and Warwick unto the Lord Willoughby of Willoughby
and Erisby against the Heirs and Assigns of M r Heronden was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdy and Serjeant Rolls Memorandum That this day before the passing of my Lord Willoughbies Act Edward Heronden came before the Lords and gave his Assent thereunto Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the third day of this instant March foregoing Saturday next was appointed by the House for the appearance of M r Oughtred and the Earl of Sussex and Viscount Mountague appointed to talk with the Lady Marchioness about the assurance of her Jointure by a Parliament Nota That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9 th day of February last past when Committees were appointed about it Vide also on Monday the 29 th day of this instant March following M r Vinions matter of which Vide antca on Monday the first day of this instant March foregoing was again referred to the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes The Bill lastly for redress of erroneous Judgment in the Kings-Bench was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice of England brought in also a certain Record touching a Writ of Error according to a Bill preferred to her Majesty and Signed with her Highness hand concerning the same Which see at large on Monday the 8 th day of this instant March following For though it was this day brought into the Upper-House yet it is likely it was not there publickly read until the said Monday and therefore it is Entred at large on that day in the Original Journal-Book upon which it was read and not upon this day when it was brought into the House by the Lord Chief Justice as aforesaid On Friday the 5 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa On Saturday the 6 th day of March Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath to which the Lords having formerly added some Amendments had sent it back to the House of Commons where it first passed on Monday the 14 th day of December foregoing And upon this instant Saturday the said Commons sent it back again to the Lords with new Amendments upon their Amendments which said new Amendments of the Commons their Lordships did this Morning pass without further Disputation having read them prima secunda tertia vice Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Wednesday the third day of this instant March last past and on Saturday the 13 th day of the same Month ensuing In all which days it will appear fully how hardly and difficultly it passed either House And yet at last when it was agreed on by both the said Houses it was dashed by her Majesty at the last day of this Parliament upon that prejudicated and ill followed Principle as may be conjectured that she would suffer nothing to be altered in matter of Religion or Ecclesiastical Government Vide itidem on Thursday the 18 th day of this instant March following Memorandum That whereas Ferdinando Clark one of the Ordinary Gentlemen of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Steward was committed to the Prison commonly called the Kings-Bench upon a Reddit se in the Kings-Bench for the discharge of his Sureties since the beginning of this present Parliament the Lords at the Motion of the Lord North in the name of the Lord Steward claiming the ancient priviledge of this High Court after the hearing of the Cause between the said Ferdinando and one John Lacy Citizen of London Ordered that the said Ferdinando by vertue of the priviledge of this High Court should be enlarged and set at liberty And further for as much as the said Ferdinando was not Arrested in Execution at the suit of the said John Lacy but was committed after Judgment by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Justices of the Kings-Bench upon a Reddit se for discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds the said Lords Ordered that touching the sum of money recovered by the said John Lacy against the said Ferdinando Clark should stand to such order and mitigation therein as the said Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench shall set down and order for the same And further Ordered that the appearance of the said Ferdinando Clark by rendring himself into the said Court of Kings-Bench was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds should be redelivered And it was further Ordered that ..... Catesby Marshal of the Kings-Bench should be discharged of the Prisoner and of any Action that might be brought against the said Marshal for the same On Monday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Record touching a Writ of Error which the Lord Chief Justice had brought into the Upper House on Thursday the 4 th day of this instant March foregoing was Entred in the Original Journal-Book and as it should seem read publickly in the House being in manner and form following Memorandum quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capitalis Justiciarius de Banco Regis secum adduxit in Cameram Parliamenti inter Dominos Breve de errore Billam per Reginam indorsat ' Rotul ' in quibus supponebatur error ibidem reliquit transcriptum totius Recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto Breve de Errore in Parliamento Et super hoc venerunt Richardus Harbert Johannes Awbery Willielmus Filian Simon Browne in propriis personis suis in Parliamento statim dixerunt quod in Recordo processu praedictis ac etiam in redditione Judicii praedicti manifestè est erratum in hoc quod posiquam Judicium praedictum in loqkela hac versus praefatum Thomam Gonnel redditum fait antequam praedictus Joh. Hunt hunc prosecutus suit impetravit praedictum primum breve de seire facias versus praefatum Richardum Harbert Johannem Awbery Willielmum Filian Simonem Browne Manucaptores praedicti Thomae Gonnell nullum breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum pro debito damnis praedictis per praefatum Johannem Hunt in placito praedicto prosecutum returnatum suit versus praefatum Thomam Gonnell ubi per consuetudinem Curiae dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa
data Doctori Barkeley servienti Rodes in domum communem deferend ' The Bill to make a Fine levied by Peter Heame and Johan his Wife and John Tredolias alias Leha and Anne his Wife during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne was put to the question and was rejected by the most Voices for the Preamble of the Bill was scandalous and no proof made thereof Nota That this Bill preferred by Anne the Wife of the above-named Tredolias to reverse a Fine levied by her during her Non-age by Authority of Parliament because it seemeth being at this time of full Age she could not otherwise do it by ordinary course of Law was very deliberately and advisedly proceeded in by the Lords who having given it the first reading upon Thursday the 17 th day of December and the second reading upon Saturday the 20 th day of February foregoing did before any further proceeding in it on Monday next following being the two and twentieth day of the said February foregoing refer the same to certain Lords being chosen Committees therein by the said Anne on the one part who was the Plaintiff and M r 〈◊〉 on the other who was the Defendant and to whose use it seemeth the said Fine had been levied after which the said Lords Committees having not ended the said difference it was again committed on Monday the first day of March foregoing to the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes to hear it and to make some conclusion thereof which being not effected it was again on Thursday following being the 4 th day of this instant March referred to the said M r of the Rolls and the Serjeant aforesaid who still endeavouring without any effect to make any accord between the said Parties it was now at last upon the foresaid Monday the 22 th day of this instant March put to the Question in the Upper House and there the said Bill preferred by the said Anne to be relieved in Parliament contrary to her own Fine was rejected where it may be seen how tender their Lordships were to relieve any Party contrary to the course of the common Law For the Case appeareth singly to be this Baron and Feme levy a Fine the Wife being under Age then the Husband dies as John Tredolias Leza or Leha did here the Wife being of full Age and she sues in Parliament to be relieved for at Common Law if an Infant levy a fine and then die or becomes of full Age before it be reversed the Fine stands good as if it had been levied by one of full Age as was delivered in the Common-Pleas per totam Curiam in the Lady Caesars Case then Wife of Sir Julius Caesar Knight Master of the Rolls which is entred in termino Trinitatis Anno 21 Jacobi Regis Rotulo 1971. On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Water-Bailiff was read secunda vice but not mentioned to be either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Explanation of a Statute made Anno 13. of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to reform sundry disorders touching Ministers of the Church was read prima vice On Wednesday the 24 th day of March The Bill against Rogues Idle and Vagrant Persons was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed and the reason hereof may be that this Bill having passed the House of Commons and being sent up to the House of Lords fairly ingrossed in Parchment can be no more ingrossed neither do the Lords ordinarily refer such Bills to Committees unless there be very great cause in respect that each House holding correspondency with other they do not willingly submit that to the agitation of a private Committee which hath been allowed and approved by the wisdom of a whole House There may also be two other reasons besides the Clerks negligence who may sometimes omit it why a Bill upon the second reading is so left without any mention made of the committing or ingrossing as where the referring of it to Committees is deferred till some other day as it fell out in the Parliament de Anno 13 Reginae Eliz. when the Bill touching the Commission of Sewers being read secunda vice on Friday the 20 th day of April was referred to Committees on the day following being Saturday the 21 th day of the same Month. The third and last reason finally why a Bill may be mentioned to be read secunda vice without any further Order taken in it as aforesaid may be assigned in some extraordinary Cases as where Bills of Grace viz. for the restitution in Blood of any and such like are sent to the House from her Majesty fairly ingrossed in Parchment and Signed with her hand which for the most part do pass the House without any stop or question But it is to be noted that in later times the committing of a Bill upon the second reading is always when it is so read and is never deferred until another day Three Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act for the Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherbourn Nota That no continuance of the Parliament is Entred this day in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament On Friday the 26 th day of March to which day it seemeth the Parliament had been on Wednesday last continued Introductum suit breve quo Richardus Petriburgen Episcopus praesenti Parliamento summonebatur interesse qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo cuiquam jure suo The Amendments for the Bill touching the Incorporation of Christs Hospital in the Town of Sherbourn were read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the reviving continuance and explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes Six Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas was read prima secunda tertia vice expedita And the second being the Bill for the safe keeping of the Armour of obstinate Recusants was read prima secunda tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle Nota That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. maketh mention of some amendments added to this Bill
day of November in the first meeting of this present Parliament on the behalf of the Borough of Grantham in the Country of Lincoln against Arthur Hall Gentleman that the said Arthur Hall had Commenced Suits against them for Wages by him demanded of the said Borough as one of the Burgesses of the Parliament in the Sessions of Parliament holden the thirteenth fourteenth eighteenth and twenty third years of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty wherein it was alledged that the said Borough ought not to be charged as well in respect of the negligent attendance of the said Mr. Hall at the said Sessions of Parliament and some other offences by him committed at some of the said Sessions as also in respect that he had made promise not to require any such Wages the Examination of the said cause on the second day of December in the last Session mistaken for Meeting of this Parliament by Order of this House was committed unto Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of the Dutchy Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Cromwell Robert Markham and Robert Wroth Esquires This day report was made by the said Committees that not having time during the last Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting to examine the circumstances of the cause they had in the mean Season by their Letters advertised my Lord Chancellor that the said cause was committed unto them and humbly requested his Lordship to stay the issuing forth of any further Process against the said Borough until this Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting which accordingly his Lordship had very honourably performed And the said Committees did further declare that having during this Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting sent for Mr. Hall declared unto him the effect of the complaint against him they had desired him to remit the said wages which he had demanded of the said Borough whom they found very conformable to condescend to such their request and that the said Mr. Hall then affirmed unto them that if the said Citizens of the said Borough would have made suit unto him he would upon such their own Suit then remitted the same so was he very willing to do any thing which might be grateful to this House and did freely and frankly remit the same which being well liked of by this House it was by them this day Ordered that the same should be entred accordingly On Thursday the 23 th day of March the Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was sent down from the Lords by Serjeant Gawdie and Doctor Carew which having passed the House was sent back again this Morning unto their Lordships with another Bill which was for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes This day finally the Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons being sent for into the Upper House and thereupon repairing thither two Commissions under the Great Seal were read by the first of which her Majesty being absent gave her Royal Assent to ten several Acts or Statutes which passed at this time and by the other this Parliament was dissolved Nota That all this days Passages are supplied out of the Upper House Journal THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 4 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1589. THE Queens Majesty soon after that her wonderful and glorious Victory which God Almighty had given her Navy over that vainly stiled Invincible Armado sent against her Realm of England by the Spanish King summoned this her High Court of Parliament to begin on Tuesday the 12 th day of November that present year 1588. and the 30 th year of her Reign that so by common Advice and Counsel she might prepare and provide against the inbred malice of that Prince and Nation Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties late Vice-Chamberlain being made Lord Chancellor in the room and stead of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight who having been sick a great part of the last Parliament dyed in April following Anno 29 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1587. But other occasions of some importance requiring the deferring of the said Assembly her Majesty Prorogued the same in manner and form following Memorandum That whereas the Queens Majesty by her Writ summoned her Parliament to begin and to be holden at Westminster this present Tuesday being the 12 th day of November her Highness for certain great and weighty Causes and Considerations her Majesty specially moving by the advice of her Privy Council and of her Justices of both her Benches and other of her Council learned did Prorogue and adjourn the said Parliament until the 4 th day of February next by virtue of her Writ Patent sealed with the Great Seal and bearing date the 15 th day of October last past Whereupon at this said 12 th day of November the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of London and three other Barons repaired to the Parliament-Chamber commonly called the Upper House and there in the presence of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses summoned to the said Parliament declared That her Highness for divers good causes and considerations her specially moving by her Highnesses said Writ had Prorogued the said Parliament from this said first summoned day until the 4 th day of February next Whereupon the Writ for the said Prorogation in the presence of all that Assembly was openly read by the Clerk of the Upper House in haec verba ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis fidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgensibus dicti Regni nostri ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii 12 die Novembris proximè futuro inchoand ' tenend ' convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet Salutem Cùm nos pro quibusdam ardnis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedictos teneri ordinaverimus ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem diem praedictum interesse mandaverimus ad tractand consentiend concludend ' super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum nsque ad in quartum diem Februarii prox ' futurum duximus
time Clerk of the Upper House wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the said House and is therefore supplied here as elsewhere also out of that of the House of Commons On Thursday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Tuesday foregoing the amendments of the Bill for having Horses Armour and Weapons was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Amendments also and a new Proviso annexed unto the Bill against Informers was read secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae and one other Bill of no great moment had its first reading The Bill for the better recovery of Costs and Damages against Informers which had been sent up to their Lordships on Tuesday the 4 th day of this instant March foregoing was sent down again this day to the said House by M r Doctor Ford and M r Doctor Cary. Nota That the sending down of this Bill from the Lords to the House of Commons is wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and is therefore supplied out of that of the House of Commons On Friday the 14 th day of March The Bill of Subsidy was once read and the Provision of the Bill for Orford-Haven was read and concluded and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and M r Powle On Saturday the 15 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being a Bill for the confirmation of the Subsidies of the Clergy was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand And another being a Bill against erecting and maintaining of Cottages was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Clark On Monday the 17 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of the Subsidy was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this Forenoon six Bills of no great moment of which the first was the Bill for reviving and enlarging of a Statute made in the 23 d year of her Majesties Raign for repairing of Dover Haven and the second was the Bill for the preservation of the Haven of Orford in the County of Suffolk On Tuesday the 18 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against the abuses in election of Scholars and Presentation of Benefices was read tertia vice conclusa And the scond being a Bill that the Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs was read tertia vice and concluded and was sent down to the House of Commons with the former Bill by Doctor Clark and Doctor Cary. There were also this morning brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment of which the first was a Bill for the better execution of the Statute made in the 8 th year of her Majesties Reign touching Cloth workers and Cloths to be shipped over the Seas and the second touching Outlawries The Two other Bills touching forcible Entries and touching pleading at large in an Ejectione firmae which were sent up at this time with the two former are omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and are therefore supplied out of that of the House of Commons On Wednesday the 19. day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for avoiding of certain Conveyances and other Estates supposed to be procured by Thomas Drewry of the lands of Thomas Hasilrigge with the Amendments was read secunda tertia vice conclusa On Thursday the 20 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill concerning Pleadings in Actions of Trespass for Trespasses under the value of forty shillings was read tertia vice conclusae An Act providing remedy against Discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Exchequer and Kings Bench was brought from the House of Commons On Friday the 21 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Hospital of Lamborne was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Puckering There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this Forenoon three Bills of no great moment of which the first was a Bill for Writs upon Proclamations and Exigents to be currant within the County Palatine of Durham On Saturday the 22 th day of March four Bills of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was a Bill for avoiding of certain Conveyances c. procured by Thomas Drewry of the Lands and Leases of Thomas Hasilrigg and the second was the Bill for the better recovery of such costs and damages as shall be adjudged to any person against common Informers The Lords having this Forenoon given three readings to the Amendments of the Bill for the better assurance of Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the free Grammer School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent did send the same Bill with those new Amendments to be passed also in the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and M r Powle the Bill it self having before passed that House and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Monday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing On Monday the 14 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Amendments of the Bill against abuses in Election of Scholars c. were read and concluded Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the repeal of certain Statutes was read secunda vice Five Bills were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act against the erecting and maintaining of Cottages sent up with the Amendments from the House of Commons which said Amendments were thrice read communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae Memorand quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capitalis Justic. de Banco Regis secum adduxit in Parliamento in Camera Parliamenti intra Dominos breve de errore billam de Regina indorsat ac Rotul in quibus continebantur placit process in quibus supponebatur error ibidem reliquit transcriptum totius recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto breve de errore in Parliamento On Tuesday the 25 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment were brought up
Subjects whose most faithful and approved good love and fidelity towards her she more esteemeth than all the Treasures of the world besides very shortly to cause a Collection to be made of all the Laws already in force touching Purveyors and also all the constitutions of her Highnesses Household in that case and thereupon by the advice of her Judges and her Learned Council to set down such a Form and Plot for the said Redresses yea and that before the end of this present Session as shall be as good and better for the ease of the Subjects than that which this House had attempted without her Privity and in which they would have bereaved her Majesty the Honour Glory and Commendation of the same And touching the Exchequer she said it was her Chamber and so more near unto her than the Household And that in the tenth year of her Raign her Majesty had caused certain Orders and Constitutions to be set down for the due and fit course of such things in the said Court as her Subjects seem to be grieved for Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th day and on Tuesday the 27 th day of February foregoing as also on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Thursday the 6 th day of this present March The Committees in the Bill for the Pier of Dover and Hartilpool appointed to meet this day on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing are defered till Monday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the former place M r Serjeant Shuttleworth and M r Doctor Awberry do bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was an Act for the maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage with commendation of the same Bills to the good consideration of this House to be dealt in by the House with all convenient speed that may be M r Morrice and divers other Members of this House arguing to the Bill last read yesterday it afterwards in the end passed upon the question M r Edward Cook Esquire one of the Burgesses returned into this House for the Borough of Alborow in the County of Suffolk is for his necessary affairs licensed to depart On Monday the 10 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Writs of Covenant c. was read the third time and a Proviso for the Lord Powes and Sir Edward Herbert and their Heirs was thrice read and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill the said Bill was dashed upon the question The Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents lately passed this House was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others who returning again from thence with the said Bill shewed that their Lordships would be ready for them half an hour hence and willed them then to come again Upon which report it was thought good to attend their said Lordships leisure therein half an hour hence accordingly And afterwards the said Bill was sent up by the said M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the maintenance of the Pier of Dover with a Note of the Committees names are delivered to M r Wroth one of the Committees in the same who were appointed on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing The Bill for granting of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies to her Majesty being ordered upon the question to be read was then read for the third reading and passed upon the question accordingly On Tuesday the 11 th day of March the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto M r John Stubbs the Burgesses of Norwich the Burgesses of York and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for repairing of Dover-Haven appointed on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing shewed that the said Committees have met and travailed in the said Bill and do think good that concerning some things in the same there be a Conference prayed with the Lords and thereupon it was assented that the Bills last passed in this House should presently be sent up and withal to make that request also unto their Lordships accordingly After which the Bill touching Pleadings in Actions of Trespass under the value of forty shillings having had its last reading this Morning and passed the House was with the Subsidy Bill sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with Commission to pray Conference with the Lords touching the Amendments desired by this House to be made in the said Bill for Dover-Haven Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the bringing in of salted Fish and salted Herrings was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Sir John Parrot Mr. Vice-Chamberlain the Burgesses of Orford Alborow York Norwich Lincoln Lin and Barwick and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber M r Doctor Awberry and M r Doctor Cary do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for assurance to be made of the Jointure of Anne the Wife of Henry Nevill Esquire with some Amendments which their Lordships pray to be considered of by this House M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have had Conference with the Lords touching some parts of the said Bill for Dover-Haven and reciting some particularities of the same shewed that the Lords can like of such course of Amendment as by the said Committees of this House was moved unto them if the House shall think good to set down and require those Amendments And thereupon this form of amendment was assented unto by this House viz. linea 18. after the word And put out all that followeth unto these words be it in the 20 th line put out all from the end of the 20 th line unto this word that in the 30 th line Sir Edward Hobby M r Markham M r Buckley and Mr. Peter Evers were added to the Committees in the Bill for the City of Lincoln and the Bill with the names was delivered to Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees On Wednesday the 12 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Comptroller Sir Robert Jermin Sir William Moor and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir John Parrot one of the Committees for the Pier of Hartilpool brought in the Bill in the name of himself and the residue of the said
Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The like whereof the Commons Assembled in this Parliament have Ordered For all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid are to contribute in double manner Which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others who have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their Attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their Charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday the 6 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding deceits used in sale of twice laid Cordage for the better preservation of the Navy of this Realm was read tertia vice conclusa Eight Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday the 7 th day of April Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for rating of the Wages of Spinners and Weavers and to reform the falsities of Regrators of Woollen Yarn was read primâ vice On Monday the 9 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills were each of them read secundà tertiâ vice and so expedited of which the second was the Bill for the bringing of fresh Water to the Town of Stonehouse in the County of Devon Eight Bills also this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Naturalizing of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy being born beyond the Seas of English Parents and to put them in the nature of meer English was read primâ secundâ vice But it doth not appear whether this Bill were committed or no which did not only happen in this place by the negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House but also through the whole Original Journal Book of the said House this Parliament in all which although divers Bills are said to be read the second time yet it is not at all expressed whether they were thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed or further to be considered of by some select Committees of the House one of which of necessity must be put in Execution upon the said second reading of a Bill both in the Upper House and that of the House of Commons unless the Bill have its third reading also at the same time and pass the House or else be dasht upon the question and so cast out of it This Morning finally Whereas a Bill Intituled An Act touching Power and Liberty to repeal certain uses of a Deed Tripartite herein mentioned of and in certain Lands Mannors and Tenements of Anthony Cooke of Romford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in the which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful Estates or Titles This day there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offered to this House and some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill And in the end it was resolved that the Saving should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have some Saving in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all other be saved thereby Nevertheless upon weighty considerations the Lords have Ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any Precedent On Tuesday the 10 th day of April in the Morning were two Bills read of which the second being the Bill for the Queens most gracious and general free Pardon was read primâ vice and so passed upon the question Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading Whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being read three times both by the Lords and the Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continnavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam c. à Meridie Between five and six of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the tenth day of April the Queens Majesty accompanied with her Officers and daily Attendants came to the Upper House and as soon as her Majesty with the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of Subsidy The said Speaker being placed at the Bar at the lower end of the Upper House and as many of the House of Commons as could conveniently being let in after Humble Reverence done to her Majesty spake as followeth THE High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most ancient Court within this your Realm For before the Conquest in the High places of the West-Saxons we read of a Parliament holden and since the Conquest they have been holden by all your Noble Predecessors Kings of England In the time of the West-Saxons a Parliament was holden by the Noble King Ina by these words I Ina King of the West-Saxons have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wisest Commons with the Godly men of my Kingdom to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew all the parts of this High Court still observed to this day For by King Ina is your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in Ancient time were these which we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an Ancient and chief part of our State By Aldermen were meant your Noblemen For so honourable was the word Alderman in Ancient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By Wisest Commons is meant and signified Knights and Burgesses and so is your Majesties Writ de discretioribus magis sufficientibus By Godliest men is meant your Convocation-House It consisteth of such as are devoted to Religion And as Godliest men do consult of weightest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos Statum defensionem Regni nostri
No M r Speaker said the Order of the House is that the I being for the Bill must go out and the No against the Bill doth always sit The reason is that the Inventor that will have a new Law is to go out and bring it in and they that are for the Law in possession must keep the House for they sit to continue it Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal The further Passages of this day and part of the next do follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for Explanation and Confirmation of her Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late of Sir Francis Englefield Knight Attainted of High Treason On Wednesday the 21 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the maintenance of the Haven in the Town of Colchester and for the paving of the same Town had its first reading The Amendments in the Bill touching the breadth of Plunkets Azures and Blues being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for the more speedy and due Execution of Process against Recusants being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The Councel on both sides were this day heard at large in this House in the Bill against Aliens selling by way of retail any Foreign Commodities and afterwards sequestred Which done the Amendments intended by the Committees in the said Bill were read unto the House and after the reading Ordered upon the question to be inserted into the same Bill accordingly After which there followed divers long Speeches and Arguments on both sides both with the Bill and against the Bill which said Speeches being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are in respect of the great weight of this matter touching Aliens now controverted supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Francis Moore of the Middle-Temple being as it should seem at the Bar of Councel with the City of London and in their behalf to speak for the making of a new Law by the Order of the House spake first and did at large set forth the inconveniencies that grew to our Nation and Tradesmen by suffering I Tradesmen to retail First because that Strangers Wares are better than ours which causeth that our Retaylors have no sale of their Wares They sell cheaper though their Wares be as good as ours And this is by reason they have Factors beyond the Seas that are their Friends and Kinsfolks and so they save that Charge A thing to be noted And wheresoever they are our own native Retaylors are Beggars They receive Gentlemen and Yeomens Sons to be their Apprentices themselves being Retaylors and this is no Trade afterwards for them to live on So many Beggars be made consuming their time under them Their retailing Beggering our Retaylors makes a diminution of the Queens Subsidies Their riches and multitude makes our Estate poorer and weaker for they stick upon our wealth and carry it into Foreign Countries In the Statute Richard 3. Cap. 9. there appeareth the like Complaint that now is which being then made unto the King was then remedied as appeareth by the Statute And for the Objections made First that it were against Charity that Strangers sleeing hither for Religion and relief should be restrained from the means of getting their livings Secondly that their retailing 〈◊〉 seneth the prices of our Wares and encreaseth the number of Buyers and Thirdly that it were violating of their priviledge if we have them by their diminution The priviledge of S t Martins hath always been allowed and now not to be denied To Answer to these in Order First Charity must be mixt with Policy for to give of Charity to our own Beggering were but Prodigality and such Charity we use for we allow them all Trades that they have been brought up in but retailing is a thing that they were never brought up unto in their own Countries so no reason to allow it them here To the second they buy of us and sell as brought from beyond Seas and upon this opinion sell our own Wares dearer than we can do Their priviledge of Denization is not to be allowed above the priviledge of Birth and our Natives are not allowed to Retail and Merchandize as they do And it may appear by a former Statute that notwithstanding their Denization they have been bound under the Statute 34 H. 8. And though the Stranger Merchants pay double Subsidies yet Strangers Retaylors do not but are taxed by the place and that under value because their goods and wealth is secret but barr retailing and they will all of them be Merchants and so the Subsidy shall be doubled S t Martins was first allowed for a Sanctuary and for that Cause had his priviledge and not to be so ill a Neighbour to the City as to rob it as it doth and by former Statutes St. Martins hath been barred as by the Statute 21 H. 8. appeareth only the Statute of 1. H. 8. exempted it M r Proud of Lincolns-Inn being as it should seem at the Bar of Councel with the Strangers and in their behalf to speak made particular Answer to M r Moore for Strangers in resisting his Answers to the five Objections Then he offered if the Liberties of the Natives born might be granted to Strangers they would seek no more for they desired but to trade in all parts of the Realm M r Hill of Lincolns-Inn of Councel also with the Strangers spake next and said Make it Law that they shall not retail and the Merchants hereafter will require a Law that they may not use Merchandise and so the Shoo-maker Taylor and others that they may not use their Trades and in denying them one you take away all Upon this instant M r Speaker delivered a Bill which desired they might be barred of such Trades as to be Shoo-makers and such like But this Bill was thought to be put in by the Strangers themselves of Policy This I thought And besides these Retaylors themselves be not Aliens but far Foreigners such as have forsaken their own Countries and Liberties to live here in ours and home they dare not resort Further of the things they retail we have no Company or Trade here in England and therefore it were unreasonable to bar them of their said Retailing It should seem that these three last before-named were all of the Councel of either part that spoke at the Bar and that the Speeches following were all of them uttered by several Members of the House Sir John Wolley spake next as it should seem after the Councel of either part had been heard at the Bar and said This Bill
certain places of aboad with the Amendments were first twice read and the Bill and Proviso upon the third reading passed upon the Question Sir Walter Raleigh one of the Committees in the Bill against Aliens retailing of Foreign Wares shewed the travels of the Committees and offereth unto the House the Bill with a Proviso And the Proviso being twice read the Bill and Proviso upon the Question were Committed again to the former Comittees and the Bill was delivered to M r Dalton one of the said Committees who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer Chamber On Monday the 26 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last concerning Spinners and Weavers was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Knowles Sir Moyle Finch Sir Francis Hastings and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Knowles who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer M r Speaker shewed that he had received a Bill Signed by her Majesty for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Parrot Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Parrot Knight deceased lately attainted of High Treason Whereupon The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Parrot Son and Heir of Sir John Parrot Knight deceased Attainted of High Treason was twice read M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Lands late Sir Francis Englefields Knight attainted of High Treason who had been appointed on Thursday the 22 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and for certain things considered therein by them touching some Misprisions and imperfections both in sence and in writing have thought good that the said Committees of this House might upon a Motion to be made unto the Lords for Conference touching the said Misprisions and Imperfections have Conference with their Lordships therein for that the same Bill came from their Lordships Which upon that motion was assented unto by the whole House accordingly And immediately after the Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad lately passed with some amendments in this House which before came from the Lords and the Bill also for Confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Margaret Countess of cumberland which likewise lately passed in this House and did also before come from the Lords were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others with Order furthermore of this House to move their Lordships for the said Conference touching the said Misprisions and Imperfections in the Bill touching the said Lands lately the said Sir Francis Englefields The Bill for the bringing of fresh water to the Town of Stonehouse was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Drake M r Edgecombe Sir Thomas Conisby M r Dalton and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the Haven of Plymouth and the Bill for the Inning of Plimpton Marsh were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees in the Bill for the Town of Stonehouse to meet at the same time and place and the Bills were both of them delivered to Sir Francis Drake one of the said Committees The Bill concerning the Lands of Henry late Lord Burgavenny had its third reading and the amendments were also read the third time and the Bill with the Amendments passed upon the Question The Bill touching the Assize of Fuel was upon the second reading committed unto M r Humphrey Conisbie M r Fanshaw M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Fanshaw who with the rest was appointed to meet this present day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Ford do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships according to the request of this House have assented unto the Conference demanded touching the said Bill concerning the Lands late Sir Francis Englefields lately Attainted of High Treason and that their Lordships have appointed the time to be to Morrow Morning at eight of the Clock at the accustomed place The Bill to give liberty to the Lord Harowden to sell certain Lands for the payment of his debts had its first reading M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Ford do bring word from the Lords that touching the amendments of this House in the Bill which first passed in the Upper House and was afterwards sent down unto this House for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad and then passed in the House with some Amendments and sent unto their Lordships this present day their Lordships do desire that these Committees of this House which are appointed to have Conference with their Lordships to Morrow touching the said Bill concerning the Lands late Sir Francis Englefields may also have Authority from this House at the same time and place to have Conference likewise with their Lordships touching the said Amendments of this House in the said Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad Which afterwards upon the Return of that Message made unto that House by M r Speaker was assented unto by the whole House accordingly and so signified also unto the said Mr. Serjeant Owen and Mr. Doctor Ford. On Tuesday the 27 th day of March Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for repealing of a branch of a Statute made in quarto quinto Phil. Mar. intituled An Act touching the making of Woollen Cloath shewed the Travel of the Committees in the same Whereupon after some other speeches then moving the House the said Bill was recommitted to the former Committees who had been appointed on Wednesday the 14 th day of this Instant March foregoing to meet again this Afternoon The Bill touching the true and lawful Assizing of Bread was read the second time and upon the doubtfulness of the Voices whether it should be Ingrossed or no was upon the Question by the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty seven Voices viz. with the Yea sixty five and with the No ninety two The Bill to make void the Spiritual Living of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave unto the Pope and his Religion was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares was read the third time and after many long Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill passed upon the Question by the division of the House with the difference of fourscore Voices viz. with the Yea a hundred sixty two and with the No eighty two Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the 6 th day on Tuesday the 20 th day Wednesday the
the same title as also of some Amendments in the Body of the Bill added by the Committees whose names see on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November foregoing by M r Attorney General and D r Carew The Bill touching the School of Seavenoake was brought in by the Committees who were appointed to meet on Monday the 21 th day of this instant November foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence without alteration and commanded to be ingrossed On Thursday the first day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing The Bill concerning the School of Seavenoake was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop The Bill for the establishing the Town Lands of Wanting c. was brought in by the Committees who were appointed on Saturday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence with a Proviso by them thought fit to be added thereunto which Proviso was twice read The Parties that Arrested the Lord Chandois Servant Edward Barston viz. William Wood and one Stephenson a Serjeant with two others were brought into the House by the Serjeant at Arms and upon some notice taken of the matter M r Justice Owen and M r Serjeant Drew were appointed to examine the same and to make report thereof to the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing The Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain took his place this day as Baron of Hunsdon betwixt the Lord Chandois and the Lord S r John of Bletso On Saturday the third day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing the Bill for the establishing of the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney for their consideration of a Proviso thought fit to be added by the Committees Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the encrease of Mariners and for maintenance of the Navigation repealing a former Act made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign bearing the same title which said Bill was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons for their consideration and allowance of the title and some Amendments in the Body of the Bill A second being the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor was read primâ vice Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better and safer Recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common Pleas was read primâ vice Upon the Report of M r Justice Owen and M r Serjeant Drew unto whom the Examination of the matter was committed concerning the Arresting of Edward Barston Servant to the Lord Chandois by one Stephenson a Serjeant of London at the Suit of one William Wood these two being found and judged to have willfully offended therein against the priviledge of the House were committed and sent to the Prison of the Fleet there to be kept close Prisoners until further direction should be given by the Lords of Parliament And whereas the two others were this day brought into the House before the Lords and supposed to be partakers of the same offence they upon Examination being found not to have wilfully committed any fault therein were dismissed and Order given accordingly by the Lords for their discharge in that behalf And also for the discharge of Edward Barston out of the Prison of the Counter Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 25 th day of November foregoing and on Thursday the first day of this instant December last past as also on Monday the 5 th day of this said December following as also on Wednesday the 14 th day of the same Month. On Monday the 5 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Six Bills of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for erecting Houses of Correction and Punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars And the second being the Bill to restrain Brewers to keep two Coopers and no more was read primâ vice The Bill for the Confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sands was read primâ vice Four other Bills also of no great moment were read secundâ vice and thereupon Committed The absence of the Earl of Essex Lord Viscount Bindon Earl of Cumberland Lord Scroope Lord Willoughby of Eresby Bishop of Rochester excused by the Lord Rich. Lord Chandois Lord Wharton Lord Zouch Bishop of Bath and Wells This day Order was given for the Release of Stephenson the Serjeant that arrested the Lord Chandois his Servant Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of November last past as also on Thursday the 1. day and on Saturday the 3. day of this instant December foregoing On Tuesday the 6 th day of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one Reading of which the first being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars was read secunda vice The Committees in the Bill Entituled An Act for the better and safe Recording of Fines to be levyed in the Court of Common Pleas who were appointed yesterday although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as a matter of small consequence returned the same to the House with some Amendments which Amendments were twice read and the Bill commanded to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 7 th day of December Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sandes was read secunda vice and commanded to be ingrossed and the second being the Bill for the better and safer Recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop Hodie retornatum fuit breve Thomae Domini Howard de Walden On Thursday the 8 th day of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was read prima vice And the second being the Bill for confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sandes was read tertiâ vice and
sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and M r D r Carew The Bill for the relief of the poor in times of extream dearth of Corn was read secunda vice and referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Southampton the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield the Bishop of Hereford the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord De la Ware the Lord Cobham the Lord Mountjoy the Lord Darcy the Lord Windsor the Lord North the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John the Lord Buckhurst The two Chief Justices the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Gaudy M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords Vide plus antea November 7 th Monday These Committees to meet at the little Council Chamber at the Court of Whitehall on Saturday next being the 10 th day of this instant December at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read secunda vice and referr'd to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for meeting And also Authority was given to the said Committees to call such of the House of Commons unto them at this meeting as they should find cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory or Parsonage of South Molton according to an Agreement thereof had c. was read secundâ vice Upon which reading it was Ordered that all parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of M r Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Monday next the 12 th day of this instant December by their Councel Learned and all specialties concerning the same to be then produced to the end it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Bill or no M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney being appointed by the Lords to inform themselves against that time whether any thing be contained in the Bill that may prejudice the poor Knights of Windsor and to make Report thereof accordingly on the part of the said poor Knights Vide December 12 th postea The Bill lastly for the establishing of the Possession of Sir Henry Unton Knight lately deceased and for payment of his Debts was read secunda vice A Motion was made by some of the Lords and approved by the House that there should be respite of some days taken before the third reading for any such Party or Parties as the Bill concerneth and namely any of the Wentworths to come to the House and alledge if they find cause why the Bill should not proceed And the next Tuesday was assigned for this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Knight Marshal's Man that arrested John York the Lord Archbishops Servant was brought before the Lords this day by the Serjeant at Armes and being found upon his Examination before the Lords to have wilfully offended therein against the priviledge of the House was committed to the Prison of the Fleet there to remain till their Lordships should give direction for his enlargement Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant December following On Friday the 9 th day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol and for relief of the Orphans and Poor there was read secundâ vice upon the reading whereof some Amendments were thought sit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed upon by the same House which being twice read the Bill with the said Amendments were Ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Mountjoy may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as other Tenants in Tail may do a private Statute made 27 Hen. 8. to the contrary notwithstanding was with three other of the said Bills being of no great moment read primâ vice The fifth was the Bill for repairing the Bridges of Newport and Carlioll in the County of Monmouth The sixth was for the establishing the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks which Bill was returned with allowance of the Proviso so added by their Lordships after the same was presented by the House of Commons And the seventh and last was the Bill for the establishment of the new Colledge of the poor at Cobham in the County of Kent which was returned into the House without any Alteration On Saturday the 10 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice of which the first being the Bill for the erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor with another Bill of no great consequence which had been formerly sent up from the House of Commons to their Lordships were now with some Amendments sent down again from them to the said Commons by Serjeant Drew and Doctor Stanhop The Bill Entituled An Act against Forestallers Regraters and Engrossers was returned into the House by the Committees who were appointed on Monday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there omitted as a matter of small consequence with some Amendments which were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Mountjoy may dispose of his Lands as other Tenants in Tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made An. 27 H. 8. to the contrary notwithstanding was secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquess of Winchester It was Ordered that the Cause should be heard openly in the House upon Monday Morning next by the Learned Councel on both sides Vide Decemb. 12. sequen Three Bills also of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common Pleas and was returned and allowed by the said House of Commons without any Alteration On Monday the 12 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing a Motion and request was
had by the House of Commons and delivered by M r Secretary accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill intituled An Act concerning Tellors Receivors c. Whereupon the House nominated the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and divers other Lords both Earls Bishops and Barons as Committees to confer with such a number of the House of Commons as should confer with the Lords touching the said Bill The Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Lord Chief Baron M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney being appointed to attend the Lords and the meeting to be at the great Councel Table at the Court at Whitehal to Morrow being the 13 th day of this instant December at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first concerning Stains Bridge was read tertiâ vice expedit The Councel on both parties viz. for Arthur Hatch on the one part and of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor of the other were admitted to publick hearing in the House And thereupon the Bill of Arthur Hatch was referred to Committees being Peers and Members of the House and the Lord Chief Justice of England and M r Attorney to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 8 th day of this instant December foregoing The Councel on both parts for the Lord Marquess of Minchester on the one part and the Lord Wountjoy of the other were admitted to publick hearing in the House And thereupon no just cause to hinder or stay the proceeding of the Bill appearing the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited Vide touching this business on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing The Committees upon the Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom who were appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence returned the same to the House without alteration On Tuesday the 13 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury and others and M r Justice Gaudie and M r Serjeant Crew to attend their Lordships Which Committees were Ordered to meet at the Earl of Lincolns House in Cannon Row on Thursday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for relief of the poor was read primâ vice Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Forestallers Regraters and Ingrossers was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of some Amendments The Bill giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esquire their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Dorset and Bedford was read secunda vice And thereupon two Letters from the Lady Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain were read in the House signifying her pleasure and consent to the Bill The Bill for explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers was read secundâ vice And a motion being made in the House for some Amendent of the Bill the Amendment was presently agreed on in the said House On Wednesday the 14 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers was read tertiâ vice and thereupon was sent down to the House of Commons from whence it had been formerly brought up to their Lordships with some Amendments added thereunto by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop The Bill for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others This day Order was given for the release of M r Wood out of the prison of the Fleet at whose Suit the Lord Chandois his Servant called Edward Barston was arrested so as he make satisfaction unto the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of that Arrest Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of November foregoing as also on Thursday the first day Saturday the third day and on Monday the 5 th day of this instant December last past The like Order taken for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Lord Archbishops Servant paying only the Fees of the Fleet. Vide touching this business on Thursday the eighth day of this instant December foregoing Certain Amendments were thought fit by the Committees to be added to the Bill intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggers which Amendments were twice read and upon consideration of the same direction was given to some of the said Committees viz. the Lord North the Lord S t John and the Lord Buckhurst to review the said Amendments for reformation of some defects found therein by the House and the Lord Chief Justice of England appointed to attend them On Thursday the 15 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for grant of three Subsidies and six Fiftenths and Tenths was read prima vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for establishing the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol for relief of the Orphans and Poor there and was returned with allowance of the Amendments Certain Articles were presented in writing by the House of Commons touching their opinions and objections concerning the Bill of Tellors and Receivors which were delivered to M r Attorney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to the Lords The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward was returned into the House by the Lord Treasurer first of the Committees who said that there were in the Bill certain Points that could not be well reformed whereupon motion was made to the House upon agreement amongst the Committees that the proceeding in this Bill might cease and that another course might be taken by way of Composition betwixt the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and
Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was ready drawn and brought by M r Attorney General containing a form of composition betwixt them to be ratified if it shall be thought good by Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in postmeridianum tempus hodierni diei horâ tertiâ at which time the Bill only for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read secundâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read tertiâ vice expedit Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first being the Bill touching the School at Seavenoake was returned from the House of Commons with their allowance thereof The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual rent was read prima vice On Saturday the 17 th day of December Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton c. was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 12 th day of this instant December foregoing and the Earl of Worcester and Bishop of London were added to them Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was returned into the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees who said the Committees had heard the Councel Learned on both parts as well on the part of M r Mollineux as against him and finding some matter of difficulty in the Bill the Councel desired to be heard openly in the House On Monday the 19 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop Certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees upon the second Bill concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. And the same Amendments were twice read Whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded forthwith to be ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and M r D r Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing The Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars and An Act for the relief of the Poor returned the same to the House with some Amendments which were presently twice read and commanded to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment at which exception was taken by the House of Commons and for that cause returned without their allowance because the Amendments were ingrossed in Parchment which according to the Custom and use of the House should have been Paper and thereupon the Lords now commanded them to be written in Paper Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first was the Bill for the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign returned into the Upper House with some Amendments which said Amendments were thrice read And the second being for the establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain pretended concealed title made thereunto was read prima vice Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day on Monday the 16 th day and on Thursday the 17 th day of January next ensuing Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 20 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read tertiâ vice The Amendments of the Bill concerning Labourers was presented to the House written in paper Vide concerning this Bill on the day immediately foregoing The three Bills aforesaid were sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Amendments and Provisoes added unto them by M r Attorney General and M r D r Stanhop Two Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last concerning Labourers was returned with the allowance of the Amendments The Bill lastly for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and the two Lords Chief Justices the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Attorney General to attend their Lordships who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Wednesday the 11 th day of January next following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjornavit praesens Parliamentum usque in 11. diem Januarii proae ' sequentem horâ octavâ Nota That this Adjournment although but for the space of twenty one days was by her Majesties Commandment being personally present as may be directly gathered out of those words ex mandato Dominae Reginae notwithstanding the word praesentis be omitted here as in divers other places also of these Journals of the Queens time upon the like occasion for otherwise if her said Majesty had not been personally present in the Upper House this Adjournment ought to have been by Commission under the Great Seal as a like Adjournment had been from Monday the 21 th day of December unto Thursday the 4 th day of February then next ensuing in the Parliament in Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. Nota also That at the end of this Adjournment the two Houses met in their several places without any pomp or state and also fell to the reading of such Bills and perfecting of such ordinary businesses as they had left unperfected at the time of the aforesaid Adjournment Which said new meeting of the Lords in the Upper House is Entred as followeth in the
foregoing The Bill for the establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain concealed title made thereunto was read secunda vice Upon this reading it was Ordered by the Lords that all parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the Morning being the 14 th day of this instant January to the end it might be considered whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said parties and George Lester then to be warned to attend Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of December foregoing as also on Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following Another Bill also of no great moment touching Clothiers was read secunda vice and referr'd to Committees Vide plus de ista materia die sequente Certain Amendments were offered unto the House by the Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for the Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children and others born beyond the Seas Which Amendments were presently twice read And thereupon both the Bill and the Amendments were read the third time and returned unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Carew On Friday the 13 th day of January the Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read primâ vice The said Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq are to be warned to attend the Lords on Monday Morning next being the 16 th day of this instant February at which time it is appointed that the said Bill shall be read the second time Vide touching this matter on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following The Bill against deceitful stretching and tentering of Northern Cloth was read secundâ vice and committed to the Earl of Shrewsbury Viscount Bindon the Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing The same Committees time and place appointed upon the Bill for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloths c. the former Committees being part of this number having not had time to perfect the same who had been appointed yesterday Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to preserve the property of stoln Horses in the true Owners of Vouchers in sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets was read tertia vice and refused The Bill concerning the recovery and draining from the water certain overflown grounds in the County of Norfolk was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning three hundred thousand Acres c. whose names see before on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing with Addition of the Lord S t John and M r Attorney to attend appointed to meet at the same time and place c. And such parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend also On Saturday the 14 th day of January certain Objections unto the Bill Intituled An Act for the increase of people c. were set down in writing by M r Attorney General and brought into the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And the same was sent to the House of Commons for their consideration thereof according to a Proviso made by their Lordships to the Select Committees of the House of Commons at the meeting yesterday about that Bill by Mr. Attorney General and Dr. Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Friday the 20th day of the same Month following Upon Motion made by the Lord Archbishop that the Committees for the Bill of Tillage had not time to perfect the same at the meeting formerly Assigned It was Ordered by the House that the said Committees should meet again about it at the great Council Chamber c. The like Motion was made touching the Bill of Broakers and Pawn takers and the like Order Certain Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons sent to the Lords to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added to the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Corrections and punishment of Bogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars Whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester being part of the number formerly appointed upon that Bill the three Chief Justices Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Attorney to attend And the same presently signified to the said Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been amended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House Howbeit to yield the House of Commons satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to the Conference and the meeting was appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Monday the sixteenth day of this instant January following by eight of the Clock in the Morning On which said Monday see more of this matter The Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties services concerning the Wars was read primâ vice The Councel Learned as well on the part of the Bishop of Norwich and his Tenants as on the part and behalf of George Lester were heard openly in the House but for the present no further Order or proceeding therein Vide touching this business on Tuesday the 20 th day of December last past and on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month next ensuing The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health was certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Monday the 16 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and the Town corporate of Nottingham was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer of England the Earl of Essex Earl Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord
Evers the Lord North the Lord St. John and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Clench M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that upon the meeting of such of the Lords of the Upper House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to the Bill intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction c. The said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the reason alledged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say in his own behalf concerning the Bill the same was read the second time viz. The Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read secundâ vice and Ordered to be engrossed Vide concerning this Bill on Friday the 13 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month immediately ensuing Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for repressing of offences that are of the nature of stealth c. was returned unto the House by the Earl of Essex the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently thrice read and sent by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop to the House of Commons for their consideration A Motion was made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by M r Attorney and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Bishop of London the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the House of Commons about the said Proviso Whereupon M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney were sent to the said House of Commons to signifie the same Who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and on Thursday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January last past as also on Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month immediately ensuing Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for confirmation and better assurance and conveyance of certain Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given and intended to an Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Warwick founded and established by the Earl of Leicester Vide postea concerning this Bill on to Morrow following On Tuesday the 17 th day of January it was agreed upon in the House that the Committees upon the Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage who were appointed on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing should meet for perfecting of the same at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall this present day by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop Vide touching this business on Friday the 13 th day and on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation and better assurance and Conveyance of certain Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given and intended to an Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Warwick founded and established by the late Earl of Leicester was read primâ vice George Ognell and the parties that follow the Bill for the Hospital to be heard openly in the House by their Councel Learned to Morrow the 18. day of this instant January in the Morning Vide concerning this business on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing in fine Diei A Proviso drawn by M r Attorney by Commandment of the House and appointed to be added to the Bill for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed And then both the Bill and the Proviso being read the third time were returned to the House of Commons for their consideration of the Proviso Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and on Thursday the 12. day Saturday the 14. and on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing The Earl Marshal was added to the Bill concerning Accomptants Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for some better staying of Corn within the Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-Wealth was read tertiâ vice and rejected On Wednesday the 18 th day of January the Lord Keeper signified to the House that the parties that follow the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Councel Learned Whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday Morning the 20. day of this instant January following Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 16. day and on Tuesday the 17. day of this instant Month foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last the one for the avoiding of bringing in of Pins and the other for the better furnishing and supplying of skilful Chirurgeons in and to the Land and Sea services for her Majesty and the Realm were each of them upon the second reading rejected The Earl Marshal was added to the Bill for Broakers and Pawn-takers The Committees upon the Bill for confirmation of Statute Merchants in the Cities of Lincoln and Town of Nottingham and the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivors were appointed to meet this present day The Councel learned on both sides upon the Bill concerning M r Mollineux were appointed to be heard openly in the House on Saturday next being the 21 th day of this instant January and warning to be given in the mean while thereof to the parties The Amendments agreed upon by the Councel upon the Bill of Tillage who were appointed on Wednesday the
accordingly the same persons who before had been sent to demand satisfaction But being come into the House and having placed themselves at the lower end of the said room as at other times they accustomed except the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords would come from their places and meet them at the Bar to deliver them Answer the Lord Keeper moved them to come nearer to receive Answer And when they perceived that the Lords were resolved not to come from their places to the Bar they protested by the Mouth of Sir William Knolles that they had no Commission to receive Answer in that form And so refusing to receive any Answer departed The question and difference thus remaining betwixt the Houses it was afterwards upon a Motion sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons agreed on both parts that a Conference should be had and that the aforesaid selected persons of the said House of Commons or so many of them as should be needful should meet with divers of the Lords of the Upper House being nominated by the House for that purpose in the outward great Chamber before the Chamber of Parliament presence to debate the matter and bring it to a conclusion Which Meeting and Conference being assented unto and afterwards accordingly there performed on the .... of January and the Questions debated and the reasons and observation of former time for the aforesaid Order and Custom of the House being alledged by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst that had been present in many Parliaments and especially by the Lord Treasurer the most ancient Parliament Man it was found and observed that the Order and Custom of the House was as is before written videlicet that when any Bills or Messages are brought from the House of Commons to be presented to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to arise from their places and to go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the House of Commons and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrariwise when any Answer is to be delivered by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as come from the House of Commons the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the said Upper house without the Bar and the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same sitting in his place with his Head covered and all the Lords keeping their places And thereupon the House of Commons was satisfied and the same form was afterwards kept accordingly On Friday the 20 th day of January the Answer that came yesterday from the House of Commons to the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill Intituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was by the Order of the House referr'd and delivered to the Lords Committees formerly appointed upon that Bill on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing who were required to consider thereof and to make their Report of their Opinions concerning the same The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read primâ vice A former Bill of that nature having been rejected in the House of Commons The Bill for the maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage was read tertiâ vice and the Amendments and Proviso were thrice read together with the Bill and were sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of the Amendments and Proviso by M r Attorney General and M r D r Stanhop The Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was read primâ vice A former Bill of this nature having been considered of by the Committees was by them refused for many defects found therein and this preferr'd to the House instead thereof The House having not time to hear the Councel Learned on the behalf of George Ognell and those that follow the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick as was formerly appointed a new time was appointed for the hearing of the same viz. on Monday Morning next being the 23 th day of this instant January Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first being the Bill to reform deceit and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses was read primâ vice On Saturday the 21 th day of January Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for repealing of a branch of a Statute made in the thirty fourth year of Hen. 8. Intituled the Ordinance of Wales was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Marshall the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Landaff the Bishop of Chester the Lord La Ware the Lord Rich the Lord Chandois and the Lord Compton and the Lord Chief Baron and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this Attendance of the Judges upon the Lords Committees on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing The parties on both sides concerning the Bill of Edward Mollineux were openly heard by their Councel and thereupon the said Bill was referr'd to Committees c. Vide touching this Bill on Tuesday the 13 th day and on Saturday the 17 th day of December foregoing On Monday the 23 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was read primâ vice Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children and others born beyond the Seas was returned with the allowance of the Amendments expedited And the third for repressing of offences that are of the nature of stealth and are not Felonies by the Laws of the Realm was likewise returned with allowance of the Amendments expedited Committees were appointed to confer with a competent number of the House of Commons concerning the Bill Intituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm and the meeting desired to be to Morrow Morning the 24 th day of this instant January before the House sit which the House of Commons Assented unto viz. the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Viscount Bindon and others The Committees that were appointed for Conference the 12 th day of December foregoing upon the Bill concerning Tellors Receivors c. were now appointed to meet adding unto them the Earl Marshal to Morrow c. the meeting also assented
Trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses was returned to the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso engrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Upon a Motion by the Earl Marshal that the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons who were appointed Yesterday had not convenient time this Morning to perfect the said Bill according to the Order of the House agreed upon Yesterday their Lordships appointed the said Committees to meet again about the same to Morrow Morning before the House sit The Bill entituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committees appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with divers selected persons of the House of Commons this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges and especially to the Lord Chief Justice to draw a new Bill Whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read primâ vice The Bill against carrying of Pelts c. was returned into the House by the Earl Marshal Excuse was made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hereford's absence for want of health The like excuse by the Lord Chandois for the Lord La Ware The Earl Marshal signified unto the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffeild have leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday the 27 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas was read secundâ vice but no mention that it was committed The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read secundâ vice Certain Amendments upon this Bill were drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and being allowed by the House were also twice read and thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded presently to be engrossed The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Viscount Bindon the Lord Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Wharton the Lord Darcie of Chich and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Two Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which the first being the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses with some Amendments was returned to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the said Amendments The Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral took his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Bindon And the Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. The Bill to restrain the excessive making of Malt and one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and Doctor Carew The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Sandes the Lord Chandois and the Lord Compton and M r Baron Clerke and M r Baron Evers or either of them to attend their Lordships The Bill lastly for confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read secundâ vice But no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book that this Bill was committed for at the next sitting viz. Die Lunae 30 o die Januarii the same Bill was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop On Monday the 30 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And because the Committees found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to proceed they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read primâ vice The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths which was committed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing was returned to the House by the first of the Committees and therewithal because the same was by the said Committees thought defective a new Bill of the same title was likewise presented Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the fourth being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was returned with the allowance of an Amendment which was added by the Lords Sir Robert Cecill and other Knights and Burgesses that brought the seven Bills last mentioned and moved the House for a Conference concerning the Bill sent from their Lordships Intituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars to which Conference the Lords assented and the time and place appointed to Morrow in the Afternoon at the Great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall and the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham were added unto them The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell the Lands c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Rutland the first of the Committees or Arbitrators with Amendments which
were twice read and agreed that the Bill should be engrossed Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 13 th day and on Wednesday the 14 th day of December foregoing as also on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant January last past A new meeting was appointed for the Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for reformation of certain abuses touching Wine-Casks who were appointed on Thursday the 19 th day of this instant January foregoing and the time and place appointed to Morrow Morning in the little Chamber near the Parliament presence On Tuesday the 31 th day of January the Committees in the Bill concerning Lessees and Patentees who had been appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant January foregoing were this day appointed to meet to Morrow the first day of February following in the Afternoon in the little Chamber near the Parliament presence and the Judges there required to attend The Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was read secundâ vice and was referr'd to the Committees formerly appointed for that Bill on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing with Addition of some Lords who met presently about the same and returned the Bill with some Amendments which being presently twice read the Bill was commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for reformation of certain abuses touching Wine-Casks was returned by the Earl of Nottingham the second of the Committees with some Amendments which were presently twice read and the Bill commanded to be ingrossed Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchant Strangers was read primâ vice The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was returned unto the House with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which Amendments and Proviso were twice read and the Bill commanded to be ingrossed A Motion was made from the House of Commons by Sir John Fortescue and others that some new time might be appointed for Conference about the Bill Intituled An Act to reform sundry abuses committed by Souldiers c. in regard they had appointed some other meeting this Afternoon for preparing of a Bill of Accomptants in readiness to proceed their Lordships having considered of the Motion made Answer by the Lord Keeper That they wished for some good consideration that the appointed time viz. this Afternoon might hold for this Conference supposing that if it pleased the Committees of the House of Commons to come somewhat the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other Vide diem praecedentem Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell Lands for payment of his Debts and Legacies was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Drew and D r Carew Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 13 th day and on Saturday the 17 th day of December foregoing as also on Thursday the 20 th day and on Monday the 30 th day of this instant January last past On Wednesday the first day of February the Bill Intituled An Act for the reviving continuance Explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes was returned to the House by the Lord Chief Justice with some Amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon commandment given to be prepared ready in written Paper for a third reading It was agreed that a Conference should be had with some of the House of Commons about this Bill upon Friday Morning next The Bill for establishing of the Lands given by John Bedford's Will was read secundâ vice and committed which said Committees were appointed to meet presently in the little Chamber near the Parliament presence who returning with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added to the said Bill the said Amendments and Proviso were forthwith twice read and the Bill thereupon commanded to be engrossed Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Varney Wife of Sir Edmund Varney was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the second of the Committees with some Amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon commanded to be engrossed The Bill lastly concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchants Strangers was read secundâ vice and the parties on both sides are to be heard openly in the House by their Councel Learned on Friday Morning next On Friday the third day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Wednesday foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the establishing the Lands given by John Bedford's Will c. was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Drew and Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the Amendments and a Proviso added The Amendments and a Proviso in the Bill for recovering of three hundred thousand Acres more or less of Waste Marish and Watery grounds c. were this day twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham the younger The Bill against deceitful stretching and tentering of Northern Cloths was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which Amendments and Proviso were twice read and Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading The Councel Learned as well on the part of Garrett de Malynes as of John Hunger c. was openly this day heard in the House I I de concerning this Bill in fine diei praecedentis Report was made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Members of the House of Commons concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes And the same was referred to the Lord Chief Justice and others for their further consideration On Saturday the 4 th day of February the Bill concerning Broakers and Pawn-takers the Bill against the deceitful tentering of Northern Cloths and the Bill for reviving continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes were each of them read tertiâ vice and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the
second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln in the thirty ninth year of her Reign for the taking the acknowledgment of Statutes Merchants was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord Zouch the Lord Windsor the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich and M r Justice Clinch to attend their Lordships The Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchants Strangers was read tertiâ vice Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day and on Friday the third day of this Instant February foregoing The Proviso added in the House of Commons concerning the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was this day twice read The Proviso thought meet by the Committees in the Bill concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain overflowen grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed A Motion was made by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like motion was made by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereunto the House assented And the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Monday the 6 th day of February the Bill for the confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with a Proviso thought necessary to be added Excuse was made by the Earl Marshal for the absence of the Earl of Sussex in regard of his unhealthiness The like excuse was made by the Bishop of Rochester for the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties debts c. and the second against the Excess of Apparel The Bill for the explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners c. The Bill for the recovering of three hundred thousand Acres of Marsh-grounds more or less with one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in secundam horam post-meridian At which time the Amendments and Proviso added by the Committees to the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. were twice read The Proviso also added by the House of Commons to the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandes was read the third time and thereupon the Bill was expedited Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more speedy paying of the Queens Majesties debts and for the better explanation of the Act made Anno 13 o of the Queen intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read secundâ vice Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against the Excess of Apparel was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl Marshal the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland and others Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles Sir John Forteseue and others of which the second being the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was sent back with some Amendments which were presently twice read The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rent during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned with some Amendments by the Lord Chief Justice with a Proviso thought meet to be added Which Proviso and Amendments were once read A Message was sent to the House of Commons from their Lordships by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew for a Conference concerning the Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House and the time and place was desired to be this Afternoon by two of the Clock in the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam postmeridianam At which time the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read secundâ vice The Amendments and Provisoes thought meet to be added to the Bill concerning Patentees were read the second time and thereupon commandment was given that the said Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments written in Paper ready for the third reading The Bill for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read secundâ vice The Bill for reviving continuance Explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes was returned with their allowance of the Amendments and Proviso added by their Lordships Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read the third time as they were ingrossed in the Bill And thereupon the same Bill with the Amendments were expedited The Bill also for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertiâ vice and expedited The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees c. notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop for their considerations of the said Amendments and Provisoes No continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Book of the Upper House which seemeth to have happened by the Error of Thomas Smith Esquire at this time Clerk of the same On Thursday the 9 th day of February Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the further continuance and Explanation of an Act made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is was returned with the
House some of them tending to urge the nomination of Committees in regard it was Yesterday Ordered upon the question that there should be a Committee for that purpose these Committees following were nominated all the Privy Council being Members of this House Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hastings Sir Henry Bromley Mr. Foulke Grevil Sir William Cornwallis all the Knights of all Shires Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Oldsworth Mr. Lawrence Hide the Burgestes of Rochester Mr. Robert Wingfield Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Henry Yelverton the Burgesses of all Port Towns Sir Thomas Egerton Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Henry Nevil Mr. John Bowyer Sir William Moore the Knights and Citizens for London the Citizens for York Mr. Tasbrough Mr. Jerom Horsey Mr. Davies Mr. Hubberd Mr. Doctor Crompton Mr. Finch Mr. Edmund Boyer Mr. Hext Mr. Jackman Mr. Hicks Mr. John Harper Mr. Angier Sir William Howard Sir John Lewson Mr. Bourcher Mr. Pembridge Mr. Henry Lewsey Mr. Conisbie Mr. Jackson Mr. Portington Burgesses of Derbie who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing On Friday the 11 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick Mr. Robert Wing field Mr. Doctor James and Mr. Simnell do shew sundry great abuses by Licences for Marriages without Banes granted by Registers and other inferiour Officers Whereupon Sir Thomas Cecill moved for a Committee for drawing of a Bill for Reformation thereof Whereupon were nominated Sir Thomas Cecill Mr. Simnell Mr. Finch Mr. Doctor James Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Robert Wingfield and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in Grayes-Inn Mr. Hext moved touching the abuses of Probates of Wills Sir Francis Hastings shewed that the Committees in the motion touching Inclosures and Tillage and in the motion touching the punishment of Rogues and relief of the Poor who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing had spent all their travel hitherto only about the said Inclosures and Tillage and nothing about the said Rogues and Poor and signifying that some Members of this House have travelled for framing of two or three Bills for that purpose of Rogues and Poor moved that those Bills might be received into the House to be further considered of and so it was thereupon yielded unto by the House accordingly Sir Edward Hobbie moved for a Committee for continuance of Statutes Whereupon were nominated Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy and Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Sollicitor Sir Edward Hobbie Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Bourcher Mr. Francis Bacon all the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir William Moore and others and a Note of the Committees names delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Thursday next at the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 12 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the repeal of the Statute of the twenty third of the Queens Majesty Intituled An Act for the encrease of Mariners and maintenance of the Navigation was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of the Port Towns all the Citizens for London York Hull and Norwich the Burgesses of Caernarvon Mr. Miles Sandes and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Sandes who with the rest was appointed to meet on Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r George Moore one of the Committees for priviledges and Returns whose names see before on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November shewed the differences for the Returns of Ludlow before the Committees which grew from the Sheriffs directing of his Precept to the Bayliff of the Borough of Ludlow in the singular number whereas it should have been to the Bayliffs thereof in the plural and thereupon the House was divided whether the Sheriff who might through hast or want of Experience run into that Error ought to be punished or the Town of Ludlow which had as might well be concluded wilfully made use of that his Error Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Edward Lewkenor and others urging that the Town ought to be amerced and Mr. Bourchier Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Pelham and others urging that the Sheriff ought to be amerced It was upon the Question referred to the former Committees and if it cannot be divided by them then they are to learn the Opinion of some of the Judges The Bill against the Counterfeiting of the Hands of the Lords was read the second time and upon the Question was committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House all the Serjeants at Law which are of this House Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Sir Tho. Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the better Answering of her Majesties Tenths and Subsidies from the Clergy was upon the second reading committed to M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder M r Nathaniel Bacon M r Wingfield Sir Edward Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill was delivered to M r Sollicitor Sir Robert Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill to suppress the multitude of Maulsters who had been appointed on Wednesday the 9 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the Committees have met and have travailed therein and thought good to draw a new Bill and so brought in both the old Bill and also the new Bill On Monday the 14 th day of November M r Lawrence Hide one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Town of Wanting whose names see on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the said Committees and some Amendments made by them in some parts of the said Bill which Amendments being twice read unto the House the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed M r George Moore one of the Committees in the Motion touching Armour and Weapons who were appointed on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed their meeting upon Saturday last and required to have a new day of meeting and that some of the Lawyers which are of this House being in this Committee may then attend in the same Whereupon day was given to meet again in this House upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and the Committees names being then read by the Clerk M r Serjeant Williams
Town of Northampton Mr. Edward Mountague Sir Edward Hobbie and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Cecill All which were appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this day at Sir Thomas Cecill's House Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for the Information of Grants lately moved in this House in Ecclesiastical Causes moved for a new day of meeting Whereupon Monday next in the Afternoon was appointed for the same and to be in this House Nota That although her Majesty had formerly been exceeding unwilling and opposite to all manner of Innovations in Ecclesiastical Government yet understanding at this Parliament of divers gross and great abuses therein she had on Monday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing not only given leave and liberty to the House of Commons to treat thereof but also had encouraged them to proceed in the reformation thereof by a Message brought unto the said House by Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Whereupon the aforesaid Committee here mentioned by Sir Edward Hobby was appointed Touching whose further proceedings in the said matter see on Monday the 21 th and on Tuesday the 22 th day of this instant November ensuing The Bill for keeping of Horses from stealing was upon the second reading committed unto M r Hubberd Sir Robert Wroth M r Maynard M r Portington Sir William Brereton M r Henry Nevill M r Pennington and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to M r Hubberd who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Amendments in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers were twice read and the Bill was committed to the former Committees who were appointed to meet on Monday the 7 th day of this instant November foregoing And there were added unto them M r Hext Sir Robert Wroth M r Francis Moore M r Litton M r Henry Maynard Sir George Carew M r Henry Hubberd all Barons of Ports and Sir Nicholas Parker who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall And the Bill was delivered to M r Francis Moore and M r Lawrence Hide The Proviso which came from the Lords in the Bill from taking Clergy from certain Offendors and lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships was three times read and passed upon the question M r Hext one of the Committees in the Bill for the Town of Langford Estover who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and many Causes wherefore he thinketh the Bill very unmeet to have any passing in this House Whereupon none offering to speak for the said Bill the same was rejected upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for repeal of a Statute of the twenty third of the Queens Majesty Intituled An Act for encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation had its first reading And after some Speeches both with the Bill and against it it was in the end passed upon the question Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer shewed unto the House that this Afternoon being appointed for two Commitments the one touching Monopolies and Patents of Priviledge and the other for the true Answering of the Tenths and Subsidies from the Clergy to her Majesty in both which himself is a Committee amongst others and that himself and M r Secretary Cecill are specially commanded to wait upon her Highness this Afternoon and therefore cannot attend the said Commitments and so moving for a new day of meeting wished the same to be upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Which albeit it was well liked of and yielded unto by some yet was it over-ruled by number of Voices That as concerning the said Monopolies and Patents of Priviledge the said Commitments should be continued to be held in the Afternoon of this present day in this House Vide plus touching this business on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing On Thursday the 17 th day of November Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Unton Knight deceased had its first reading M r Thomas Jewks is added to the former Committees for Examination of Priviledges and Returns who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing and are to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill also for erecting of Houses of Correction and the punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars was read the first time On Friday the 18 th day of November Twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding or Working-Houses for the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Hart M r Recorder of London M r Tasbrough all the Readers of the Middle-Temple M r Boyce M r Henry Bellasis and others And the Bill was delivered with the Committees names to the said M r Boyce who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Francis Moore one of the Committees in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers who were appointed on Monday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the Committees have withdrawn out of the said Bill those points that concerned Corn Grain and other Victuals and have framed a new Bill for that purpose Intituled An Act to make void Contracts upon Ingrossing of Corn Grain or Victual which had its first reading And the old Bill for as much thereof as was not withdrawn was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Francis Hastings M r Francis Bacon and M r Secretary moved touching the further preparing of the Bills for the re-edifying of Houses and encrease of Tillage Whereupon after some other Speeches it was resolved that the Committees therein should meet again for the same this Afternoon in this House The Bill against dying of Cloths with black Wood alias Logwood was upon the second reading committed unto the Citizens for London York Coventry Canterbury Bristol the Burgesses of Hull and Redding M r Finch and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir John Hart who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Guild Hall upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Sherley one of the Committees for continuance of Statutes who were appointed on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the greater number of the residue of the Committees being Yesterday imployed in sundry other Committees could not be present at the same Committee and so prayed another day of meeting Whereupon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon was appointed at the former place viz. the Inner-Temple Hall The Bill to restrain the carrying of Worsted-Yarn
Parliament for the County of Somerset is Licensed by this House to depart and did leave with Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of this House ten shillings for the Poor and two shillings for the Minister To Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall the Committees in the Conference for reviving and continuance of Statutes are appointed to meet who had been appointed on Friday the 4 th day of November foregoing On Wednesday the 7 th day of December Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against lewd wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Simneil Mr. Hext Sir William Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Hext who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill also against Stealers of Corn and Fruit was upon the first and second reading committed unto the former Committees in the Bill against lewd persons c. The Bill against the stretching and taintering of Northern Cloth was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Henry Hubberd one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Lands and Possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich who were appointed on Wednesday the 30 th day of November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and delivered in the Bill with the good allowance of the said Committees as a Bill in good state Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill which their Lordships Intituled An Act for the better and safer Recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas Mr. Eresbie one of the Committees in the Bill for recovering of surrounded Waste Marish and Watery grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln c. who were appointed on Saturday the third day of this instant December foregoing shewed some Amendments by the Committees and delivered in the Bill The Bill for suppressing the multitude of Maulsters was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees who were appointed on Wednesday the 9 th day of November foregoing and unto the Burgesses of York Mr. Winch Mr. Yelverton and others And the Bill was delivered to Mr. Litton one of the former Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Vide Thursday January 12 th ensuing Mr. Bird with Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Godfrey being of his Councel were heard this day at the Bar. Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 5 th day of this instant December foregoing The Bill for increase of people for the strength and defence of the Realm had its first reading Post Meridiem The Bill for granting unto her Majesty six Fifteenths and Tenths and three intire Subsidies was read the first time Nota That whereas in the last Parliament de an 35 Regin Eliz. the House of Commons was not drawn without much and long dispute both with the Lords and by themselves to yield unto the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths unto her Majesty and that the same was done also with Protestation or Caution that it should not be made a Precedent for the time to come Yet it is evident by this Bill now last read that the same proportion was again yielded unto by the said House at this present and that also assented unto with far less difficulty and with some harder Conditions on the Subjects part For a Committee being appointed to consider of it upon Thursday the 15 th day of November last past they brought in Articles ready drawn and agreed upon between them on the Saturday following being the 19 th day of the same Month at which time the House being pressed did at length condescend to the said grant of the said three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid in a shorter time than those granted in the last Parliament had been And thereupon her Majesties Sollicitor on the Wednesday next after being the 21 th day of the same November had the said Articles delivered unto him to draw up the said Bill for the Subsidy accordingly Which being afterwards by him brought into the said House was this day read as is aforesaid primâ vice And being read again the second time on Saturday the 10 th day of the said December also and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed had lastly its third reading upon Wednesday the 14 th day of the same Month ensuing and being then passed the House was immediately sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others Neither will it be amiss finally to observe in this place that as the gift of this Parliament exceeded that in the former de an 35 Regin Eliz. in respect of the manner of payment so that gift also in the Parliament following de an 43 Regin ejusdem being of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths was much greater than both these that preceeded By all which it is evident that either the publick necessity was exceeding urgent in this present and ensuing Parliament or that the aforesaid Gift yielded unto by the House of Commons in the before-mentioned 35 th year of her Majesties Raign was made a leading Precedent in the said Parliament ensuing On Thursday the 8 th day of December three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better staying of Corn within the Realm was upon the second reading committed unto M r George Moore M r Wiseman M r Edmond Bacon M r Colefield Mr. Birkeby and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Mr. Colefield who with the rest was appointed to met to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for the lawful making of Bayes was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Francis Harvey and others the Burgesses of Norwich and Gloucester the Knights for Devonshire and Cornwal And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Mr. Wiseman who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill against the bringing in of Foreign Cards for Wooll was upon the second reading committed unto the said former Committees in the Bill next foregoing And Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Serjeant Hoyle the Knights and Burgesses for London and Mr. Hubberd were added unto them to meet at the former place and time appointed for the said Bayes The Bill for Fustians was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees also Sir Thomas Cecill made a motion for a Bill of Petition to her Majesty to be drawn and presented unto her touching Monopolies Whereupon Mr. Francis Bacon perused it further and after sundry Motions and Speeches had touching the said Monopolies and
certain Waste Marish and Watry Grounds in the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge and Huntington Northampton c. were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the second time and after some amendments therein by some of the Committees in the Committee Chamber of this House and the said Amendments being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Committees names for Conference with the Lords this Afternoon were this day delivered to Mr. Comptroller Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords the Bill against Forestallers Regraters and Ingrossers with some Amendments which Bill lately passed this House and was sent up to their Lordships Mr. Crooke Mr. Mountague Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Oldsworth Mr. Robert Wroth Mr. Badger Mr. George Moore and Mr. Miles Sands went up presently into the Committee Chamber to consider further of the Bill of Tillage Mr. Shirley one of the Committees for continuance of Statutes who were appointed on Friday the 11 th day of this November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees together with their framing of a Bill for the reviving continuance and explanation of sundry Statutes and so delivered in the Bill Mr. Snagg one of the Committees for confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Merchant Adventurers in the City of Exeter who were appointed on Monday the 12 th day of this instant December foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and their utter disliking of the said Bill shewing the reasons thereof and so delivered in the said Bill as not fit to pass in this House On Wednesday the 14 th day of December Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the granting of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the question Vide concerning this Bill on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the explanation of the Statute made in the first year of her Majesties Raign concerning Labourers shewing that their Lordships have likewise passed the same with some Amendments Mr. Secretary one of the Committees appointed to have Conference with the Committee of the Lords yesterday in the Afternoon at the Court shewed at large some particulars of the said Conference and concluded that their Lordships did desire that the Copy of the Objections read unto them by the Committees of this House might be delivered unto their Lordships in Writing to the end after due consideration had by them upon the same Objections their Lordships might in the like manner answer this House in the same in writing Whereupon after sundry Speeches of other the Committees of this House It was agreed their Lordships should have such Copy in writing both of the said Objections and also of such other Objections as the Members of this House should set down or collect to be further added to the former Objections and so delivered in the Bill and Objections M r Serjeant Lewkener one of the Committes in the Bill for confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Raign who were appointed on Saturday the third day of this instant December foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees with some Amendments to the Bill And so did deliver in the said Bill to the House Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for establishing of the Possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich was read the third time and stayed from being put to the question for passing till to Morrow that the Council of Mistress Leicester have been heard in this House M r Francis Moore one of the Committees for consideration to be had touching the method and substance of the humble thanks to be yielded unto her Majesty by M r Speaker in the name and on the behalf of this whole House for her Highness most gracious care and favour in the repressing of sundry inconveniencies and abuses practised by Monopolies and Patents of priviledge to be set down in writing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees therein and delivered a Note thereof in writing which being then read by the Clerk was well liked of Whereupon M r Speaker moved the House that albeit he was ready to perform their Commandment according to the substance and effect of the said Note in Writing yet they would not tye him to the strict and precise form of the words and terms set down in the same Note so as he should prosecute the substance and reasons thereof which was then yielded unto accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 8 th day of November foregoing Friday next is appointed to hear the learned Council in the Cause of Lessees and Patentees On Thursday the 15 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes was read the third time and past upon the question The Amendments in the Bill for relieving of Cloathiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloaths to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Fssex were read twice and ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the better staying of Corn within the Realm passed upon the question upon the division of the House upon many Arguments with the difference and advantage of twenty nine voices viz. with the Yea one hundred twenty four with the No eighty five Whereupon after a motion that according to the ancient Orders of this House all the Members of the same which did sit against against the passing of the said Bill should go forth of the House to bring in the Bill into the House again together with the residue of the Members of this House which went out before that were for the passing of the said Bill wherein as sundry Speeches were used both pro contra so at last it was resolved it should be so done and observed for Orders sake accordingly And then all the Members of this House being gone forth saving only M r Speaker and the Clerk M r Comptroller brought in the Bill in his hand accompanied with all the said Members of this House and delivered in the same Bill to M r Speaker according to the ancient former usage of this House in that behalf observed Vide a like Precedent on Friday March the 21. in Parliament de an o 31 o Eliz. The old Objections and the new to the number in all of nineteen collected against sundry parts of the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivers c. and prepared to be delivered to the Lords were read by the Clerk and presently thereupon were sent up to the Lords together with the Bill
lately passed this House to preserve the property of stoln Horses and for the true making of Bays One other Bill likewise passed in this House this present day Intituled An Act for the better staying of Corn within the Realm c. And also the Bill concerning the City of Bristol and the Bill for erecting of Hospitals and Houses of Correction and abiding Houses for the Poor perfected according to their Lordships Amendments in both the same Bills albeit their Lordships direction in some Amendments were repugnant to the former accustomed ancient Orders of Parliament in such Cases used as in annexing those Amendments to the said Bill ingrossed in Parchment and indorsed with Soit baille aux Communes where the same Amendments so annexed ought to have been set down in Paper and without any indorsement in the same Paper at all And one other Bill lately passed this House for the Explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers which Bill being lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships was afterwards passed by their Lordships with the Amendment of one only word and so sent down unto this House from their Lordships which Amendment being affiled to the said Bill and ingrossed in Parchment and so ingrossed with Soit baille aux Communes was sent also to their Lordships to pray that the said Amendments may be returned unto this House in Paper affiled to the said Bill without any indorsement in the said Paper according to the ancient form of Parliament in such Case used to the end this House may thereupon proceed to the due and orderly perfecting of the same Amendments accordingly Vide concerning this matter at large upon Thursday the 20 th day of this instant December ensuing where this matter is fully handled The Bill for increase of people for the service and strength of the Realm was read the third time and after many Arguments and speeches to the said Bill for the passing thereof and sundry contradictory speeches but only to some parts or branches of the same Bill till such time as the day was far spent and the matter then in hand being of very great wight and moment M r Speaker moved to know the pleasure of the House whether they would in that regard be pleased to defer the said matter to be further argued till to Morrow Whereof as many of the Members of this House seemed to like well so many others urging the contrary it grew in the end to a question whether the said matter should be deferred for further Argument till to Morrow or else be presently continued It was upon the doubtfulness of the voices upon the putting of the question ordered by the division of the House with the difference and advantage of nine Voices or Poles viz. with the Yea one hundred and eight and with the No one hundred and seventeen that the said Argument should not be any longer continued this day and thereupon the Court did immediately rise On Friday the 16 th day of December Five Bills had each of them the third reading and passed upon the question of which one was against the stretching and tentering of Northern Cloth and another against the transporting of Sheep-Skins and Pelts and a little after all the said five Bills so passed in the House were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was upon the second reading committed unto M r Comptroller M r Secretary M r Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Sir William Moore M r Edward Lewkenor Sir Francis Hastings and others And the Bill was delivered to the said Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill for Provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London who were appointed on Monday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees and by their appointment delivered in the Bill as not fit to have any Course or passing in this House After many arguments in the Bill for increase of People for the service and strength of the Realm both with the Bill and also against it a Motion was made that a Proviso ingrossed in Parchment might be added to the same Bill which was three times read And the Bill and Proviso being put to the question the same did pass accordingly upon the question And it was then Ordered that the said Proviso should be inserted and written in the end of the said Bill as a parcel of the same On Saturday the 17 th day of December the Bill for the relieving of Cloathiers concerning the weight of short broad coloured Cloths to be made within the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was read the third time and passed upon the question and also upon the division of the House with the difference and advantage of twenty six Voices viz. with the Yea one hundred and five and with the No seventy nine which being done and a Motion thereupon made by some that those which did sit against the Bill might rise and go forth to fetch and bring in the Bill into this House accompanied with the residue of the Members of this House according to the ancient orders of the House in such Case used M r Speaker did thereupon move that in regard of the preciousness of this present time the Parliament being so near an end it might please this-House in yielding and assenting to the due allowance of the right of the said Order in the said Course thereof in the Ceremony of bringing in this Bill the Execution of the same may for this time be omitted and forborn in regard of the shortness of the time and was thereupon so assented unto and Ordered accordingly upon the question Nota That there is an excellent Precedent of the full performance of this Ceremony on Thursday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing with which also agrees another like Precedent which fell out in the Parliament in an 31 Regin Eliz. upon Friday the 21. day of March and yet this present passage is somewhat more rare than either of those in respect that the said Ceremony contrary to the antient usage of the House of Commons was omitted upon the Motion of the Speaker after it had been put to the question and overruled by the major part of voices The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the third time and passed upon the question and after many Arguments was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary and others The Council on both sides in the Bill concerning the Possessions of the Bishop of Norwich were heard at the Barr and the Bill after the Council sequestred was put to the question and so passed accordingly On Monday the 19 th day of December the Amendments in the Bill concerning the
same Amendments at all because the Indorsement thereof is subscribed in the Ingrossed Bill it self under the Indorsement of this House in the same Bill Whereupon some of the Members of this House charging the said Clerk that by his default and Error this House was charged by the Lords with the said imputation of Levity the said Clerk then humbly prayed that some of the Ancient Parliament men of this House might have the Examination of the said Cause how it had been proceeded in and to report such the default and errour of the Clerk if any such were The House thereupon resolved to hear the said Clerk speak himself Which done the said Clerk of this House shewed that the Clerk of the Upper House coming into the Exercise of his Office but in this present Sessions of Parliament the two Bills mentioned by M r Attorney to have been sent to this House from the Lords with Amendments in Parchment and unto which no Exceptions had been taken by this House he the said Clerk of this House did in some friendly and courteous intention towards the said Clerk of the said Upper House seek to salve up those mistakings for the time only in some part of them but not in the whole and so to make the said Clerk of the said Upper House afterwards acquainted with the due Order and Form of the Reformation therein against other times afterwards in like Cases and had so made one of the Clerks of the said Clerk of the Upper House privy of the right course and manner of the sending down such Amendments in Paper and not in Parchment and that also without any Indorsement yet nevertheless the said Amendment in the said Bill so returned as afore said was eftsoons both sent down in Parchment and also subscribed or Indorsed with Soit baille aux Communes contrary to the said advice and instruction of the said Clerk of this House so as aforesaid given to one of the Clerks of the said Clerk of the Upper House And did further aver unto this House that the said three Bills being passed in this House Ingrossed in Parchment are the Bills of this House and not the Bills of the Lords though sent up by this House to their Lordships and do still remain the Bills of this House And that if their Lordships would have any words of Amendment either taken out of the same Bill or put into it or else otherwise altered or changed in it then must such words be set down in Paper by their Lordships and annexed to the Bill shewing the line and place of the line in the Bill where such words should be either taken out or put in and then their Lordships to subscribe or Indorse under the superscription or Indorsement of this House in the same Bill A ceste Bille avecque les amendments à mesme le Bille annexe les Seigneurs sent assentus But if their Lordships do add any new matter or Proviso to the said Bill which was not before in the same Bill then must all that be ingrossed in Parchment and affiled to the said Bill and the said Bill must be subscribed or Indorsed under the subscription or Indorsement of this House in the same Bill A ceste Bille avecque le schedule à mesme le Bille annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus or A ceste Bille avecque une provision annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus if it be a Proviso and not a Schedule to the body of the Bill Then also must the said Schedule or Proviso so Ingrossed in Parchment be annexed to the said Bill and be subscribed and Indorsed by their Lordships under such Schedule or Proviso Soit baille aux Communes and so be sent down to this House passed by their Lordships which done the said words in Paper must be taken out of the same Bill or else put into the same Bill only by this House in the said Lines and places of Lines according to the direction of the Lords said Amendments in Paper And the said Schedule or Proviso being three times read and passed in this House upon the question the same Schedule or Proviso must be subscribed and Indorsed by this House under their Lordships said Indorsement thereof A ceste Schedule les Communes sont assentus if it be a Schedule or A ceste provision les Communes sont assentus if it be a Proviso Which Course being so then also approved by some of the Ancientest now Parliament Members of this House It was thought meet that all the Members of this House being of her Majesties Privy Council together which the best sort of the rest of the Members of this House accompanied with the Serjeants at Law which are of this House should be presently sent to their Lordships from this House without carrying up any Bill at all and to signify unto their Lordships in the name of this whole House That as this House had not in any manner of sort erred in their said returning unto their Lordships the said Bill and Amendments in Parchment to have had the same done in Paper and without any Subscription or Indorsement at all to the end this House might by Warrant thereof have inserted the same Amendments into that their own ingrossed Bill according to the ancient Order of Parliament in such Cases formerly used by this House So this House doth take it self to be very hardly dealt with to be taxed by their Lordships with imputation of Levity and reproached by other unusual and unnecessary terms delivered unto them this day in the said Message from their Lordships And then upon some further Motion it was resolved that M r Secretary accompanied with M r Chancellor of the Exchequer and others should be thereupon sent to their said Lordships presently for that purpose Which done the said M r Secretary putting the House in mind that the Lords had sent down to this House three Bills at their time of sending down their said Message to this House Moved that this House would be pleased to accompany this their Message unto their Lordships imposed upon him with the Bill which this day passed in this House for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Which being yielded unto the Amendments of the Lords in Paper annexed to the said ingrossed Bill of this House Intituled An Act for the Explanation of the Statute made in the first year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers were three times read by the Clerk and agreed upon the Question and presently inserted into the said ingrossed Bill accordingly and both Bills were thereupon sent up to their Lordships by the said M r Secretary and others together with the said Message of this House and at their returning back again the said M r Secretary signified unto this House that he had delivered their said Message unto the Lords according to their charge laid upon him therein But what was their Lordships Answer is most negligently and inconsiderately omitted by Fulk Onslow Esq
establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possession of the same against a certain concealed pretended title made thereunto and do shew that their Lordships have also passed the same Bill with a Proviso thereunto added by their Lordships and so delivered the Bill to M r Speaker On Wednesday the 18 th day of January Eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for renewing continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was read the first time And the last being the Bill to tax all Lands and Goods for the payment of the Subsidy in the same Parish where it lyeth was read the first time and rejected upon the Question for a second reading The Committees in the Bill to restrain the excessive making of Mault who were appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Committees in the Bill to restrain deceits and breaches of Trust who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing are appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon at two of the Clock M r Finch one of the Committees in the Bill against wandring Souldiers and Mariners who were appointed on Wednesday the 7 th day of December foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and that they have made a new Bill for that purpose and so delivering in both the old Bill and the new Bill prayed the speedy expediting of the said new Bill Whereupon the same Bill was then presently read for the first reading The Bill to enable Thomas Knivet Esquire to dispose of certain LandsEntailed to him by Dame Anne Knivet his Mother was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Serjeant Warberton Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Walter Raleigh who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for taking away of Clergy from Robbers of Houses in the day time though no person be in the House at the time of the Robbery was upon the second reading referred to Sir Robert Wroth M r Serjeant Hale and others to consider further for some Amendments in the same Bill presently in the Committee Chamber of this House The Bill for Explanation and Addition of an Act of 5 o Reginae for the maintenance of the Navy was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Cole Mr. Chapman Mr. Doctor Caesar Mr. Lewkenor and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Mr. Doctor Caesar who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Court at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning Lessees and Patentees with a Note of the Committees names was delivered to the former Committees who were appointed on Saturday the 3 d day of December foregoing to be further considered by them concerning such their Amendments in the same Bill as have not yet been read in this House The Bill for confirmation of Ordinances made by Corporations was read the third time and after sundry Speeches and Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill and upon some Motions to be made for the said Bill before it should be put to the Question for the passing the question was first made for the said Amendments and resolved both upon the question and also upon the division of the House with the difference and advantage of sixty five Voices viz. with the Yea seventy and with the No a hundred thirty five that the Amendments should not be made to the said Bill and then afterwards the said Bill being put to the question accordingly the same Bill was dashed M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop coming from the Lords M r Attorney shewed that their Lordships commanded him to signifie unto this House that whereas their Lordships received a Bill from this House Intituled An Act for increase of people for the service and defence of the Realm their Lordships having a very good liking of the meaning and intent of the said Bill and finding nevertheless sundry imperfections in the said Bill have not only imparted those imperfections in a verbal Conference by a Committee of their Lordships unto a Committee of this House but also did afterwards deliver the same in writing unto this House since which time their Lordships have heard nothing thereof from this House their Lordships do now desire to understand the further mind of this House touching the same Bill Which Message being reported unto the House by M r Speaker and the said Mr. Attorney and Mr. Doctor Stanhop first sequestred it was thereupon resolved by this House that Answer should be made unto their Lordships that this House hath not omitted any opportunity to consider of the said pretended imperfections for the further Answering of them with all possible Conveniency and will signifie the same unto their Lordships with as convenient speed as they can Which Answer for this time was immediately after delivered by Mr. Speaker unto the said Mr. Attorney and Mr. Doctor Stanhop to be returned unto their Lordships accordingly Vide Jan. 24. Tuesd. postea On Thursday the 19 th day of January the Bill for reuniting the Mannor of Paris Garden in the County of Surrey was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Norton Mr. Wiseman Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Edmund Boyer and Mr. Francis More and others and the Bill with the Committees names was delivered to Mr. Edmund Boyer who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock The Bill for the repealing of a branch of a Statute made in the thirty fourth Year of King Henry the Eighth Intituled The Ordinance for Wales was read the second time and not being spoken against by any was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Amendments of the Bill for the reviving continuing explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing and in the Bill also for taking away of Clergy from Robbers of Houses in the day time though no person be in the House at the time of the Robbery done who were appointed Yesterday shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and sundry their Amendments and Additions to the said Bills at large and so delivered in both the said Bills into the House accordingly Mr. Serjeant Harris one of the Committees in the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of Trust who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some their Amendments and Additions to the same Bill which Amendments and Additions being twice read the Bill was
Friday the 16 th day of December foregoing Vide January 24. Tuesday postea The Bill against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was read the third time and after many Speeches and Arguments some with the Bill and some against the Bill was in the end put to the Question together with a Proviso added thereunto and three times read and so passed accordingly Mr. Edward Hubberd one of the Committees in the Bill to restrain the excessive making of Mault and disorderly Brewing of strong Beer who were appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees with some their Amendments to the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill to the House On Monday the 23 th day of January Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Explanation of a Saving in a Statute made xxvii o Reg. Eliz. Intituled An Act for the better foundation and relief of the Poor of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the County of Canterbury was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Garret de Malines and John Hunger Merchants Strangers who were appointed on Friday the 13 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their making of a new Bill for sundry considerations then opened by him and so delivered in both the old Bill and the new Bill The Bill for the better measuring of seven Miles from the Town of Great-Yarmouth according to a Statute made in the thirtieth Year of King Edward the Third was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Maynard Mr. Fulk Grevill Mr. Walgrave and others and the Bill with the Committees names was delivered to the said Mr. Fulk Grevill who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Shirley one of the Committees in the Bill for the sale of the Lands and Goods of John Sharp to pay his Debts who were appointed on Friday the 20 th day of this instant January shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with some their Amendments to the same and so delivered in the said Bill to the House The Bill for reviving continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Comptroller and others of which one was the Bill against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers and Mariners and another for the Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children and others born beyond the Seas The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill for the maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage lately passed this House being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the said Proviso passed upon the Question The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rent during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill for reviving continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes and the Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary and others Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Carew did bring word from the Lords that whereas a Bill lately passed in this House was sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm and their Lordships had thereupon caused the same Bill first to have two readings in the Upper House and finding many imperfections in the same Bill yet their Lordships very well liking of the intent and scope of the said Bill and the good furtherance thereof moved for Conference with some of the Members of this House touching the said Bill wherein the said imperfections were first imparted by their Lordships unto the Committees of this House in a Verbal Conference and afterwards sent down by their Lordships to this House in writing and Answers thereupon returned by this House to their Lordships in writing to the same imperfections their Lordships very much affecting the purport and true meaning of the said Bill and wishing all good furtherance therein do desire that a convenient number of selected Members of this House may be appointed to have Conference with six of their Lordships touching this matter to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Morning in the Chamber next the Upper House And do also desire that a convenient number of the Members of this House may be in like manner appointed to meet with their Lordships to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Great Council-Chamber at the Court for Conference touching the Bill passed by their Lordships and sent down by them unto this House Intituled An Act for the better Explanation and Execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign Cap. 4 to concerning Tellors Receivers c. Whereupon Mr. Comptroller Mr. Secretary Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy and all the Serjeants at Law being Members of this House Mr. Recorder of London Mr. George Moore Mr. Yelverton Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Fulk Grevill Sir Thomas Cecill and Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards were nominated and appointed to attend their Lordships to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Chamber next to the Upper House accordingly The former Committees of this House in the said Bill concerning Tellors Receivers c. who were appointed on Monday the 5 th day of December foregoing were this day likewise appointed to attend their Lordships to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the said great Council Chamber at the Court Vide concerning this Matter as also touching the Bill for Increase of People c. on Tuesday the 24 th day of this instant January immediately ensuing The Amendments in the Bill to restrain the excessive making of Mault and disorderly brewing of strong Beer being twice read the Bill was after many Speeches and Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill ordered upon the question to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 24 th day of January the Bill concerning Garret de Malins and John Hunger Merchants-Strangers had its first reading being a new Bill and was brought in by the Committees of the old Bill who were appointed on Friday the 13 th day
of this instant January foregoing and had thought fit that the said old Bill should be rejected The new Bill also for the disposing of certain Lands to M r Thomas Knivet was read the first time after that the old Bill had been rejected by the Committees thereof who were appointed on Wednesday the 18 th day of this instant January foregoing The Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Mary Lady Verney was upon the second reading committed unto M r Philips M r Sands M r Francis Goodwin M r Snagg M r Oglethorpe and others and the Bill with the Committees names were delivered to M r Snagg who with the rest were appointed to meet at four of the Clock this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for establishing an Award made between Edmund Cotten Gentleman and Thomas Harvey Yeoman for the assurance of certain Lands in the County of Norfolk to Thomas Bennet and his Heirs for ever was read the third time and passed upon the question the learned Councel on both sides being first heard at large at the Bar. After sundry long Speeches by divers Members of this House in the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands both with the Bill and against the Bill with some motions for having the matter between the Lord Sands and Sir Walter Sands referred to Arbitrement or Comprmise it was at last resolved upon the question that according to the said Motions the said course should be taken for Compromise accordingly and the said Parties should become bound each to other for the performance of such Award or Arbitrement as should be made by Arbitrators to be named by this Court And further that the said Lord Sands and Sir Walter Sands be warned to be here in this Court to Morrow to understand the purpose of this House in that behalf accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 21. day of this instant January foregoing Vide etiam diem sequentem M r Comptroller shewed that himself and the residue of the Committees appointed by this House for Conference with the Lords touching the Bill Intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and Defence of the Realm have attended their Lordships this Morning according to the Charge of this House given to him and the residue of the Committees for that purpose And further shewed that their Lordships having perused and considered the Answer of this House in writing to their Lordships Objections in writing delivered by them to this House their Lordships cannot give passage to the said Bill But liking very well of the purpose and intent of the said Bill their Lordships do wish another Bill to be drawn and proceeded in to the said effect in some good course and do purpose to send down unto this House to Morrow Morning some points or heads in writing for that purpose Vide touching this business on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day Wednesday the 18 th day Thursday the 19 th day and on Monday the 23 d day of this instant January foregoing Vide itidem diem sequentem On Wednesday the 25 th day of January M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture for the Lady Mary Verney wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight who were appointed on the day foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some few Amendments in the same Bill and so delivered in the Bill Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the avoiding of deceit in Measure and Weights was read the first time The Committees in the Bill for the better measuring of seven Miles from the Town of great Yarmouth who were appointed on Monday the 23 d day of this instant January foregoing are ordered to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Committees in the Bill also for reviving continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners are likewise to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the better Execution of Judgments was upon the second reading committed unto M r Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy M r Finch M r Yelverton Mr. Carew Mr. Francis Bacon and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Mr. Carew who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in Grayes-Inn Hall The Amendments in the Bill for erecting and building of a Bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye near the Town of Rosse in the County of Hereford being twice read the same was upon the question ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight being twice read the Bill was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for the reuniting of the Mannor of Paris Garden in the County of Surrey being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to restrain the excessive making of Mault was read the third time and after sundry Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill and certain words stricken out in the first Proviso in one place thereof the word such and in another place thereof these words or Maults for his own expences only passed upon the Question Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring word from the Lords that whereas a selected number of their Lordships in a Verbal Conference with a Committee of some of the Members of this House concerning a Bill lately passed in the Upper House and sent down by their Lordships unto this House Intituled An Act for the better Explanation and Execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Tellors Receivors c. divers exceptions were then taken by the Committees of this House unto the said Bill and were afterwards sent up to their Lordships by this House in writing with which said Exceptions their Lordships not being satisfied have sent down unto this House their Lordships Answer unto the same also in like manner in writing And so did then deliver the same to Mr. Speaker and departed Which Message being reported unto the House by Mr. Speaker it was resolved that the former Committees of this House in that Cause who were appointed on Monday the 5 th day of December foregoing with some others then added unto them should meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber to confer and consider of their Lordships said Answer in writing accordingly The Lord Sands and Sir Walter Sands being present in this House Mr. Speaker imparted unto them the Motion of this House for compromising the Cause Whereunto the Parties
assenting after either of them had been heard speak severally their further minds unto this House in some particulars the said Lord Sandes made choice of the Earl Marshal and of M r Comptroller and the said Sir Walter Sandes made choice of M r Secretary and M r Chancellor of the Exchequer for the said Compromise Whereupon the Earl Marshal after his pleasure first signified unto this House the meeting of the same Committees was then appointed to be at the Court to Morrow in the Afternoon Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 21 th day Monday the 23 th day and on Tuesday the 24 th day of this instant January foregoing Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Comptroller and others of which the second was the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings and the third to retain the excessive making of Mault M r Serjeant Lewkenor one of the Committees of this House for the late Conference with the Committees of the Lords upon Monday last in the Morning concerning the Bill for increase of people for the service and defence of the Realm did bring from the Committees of the Lords certain Articles or Heads in writing unto this House for the framing of a new Bill to the purpose presently of the old Bill though not in that form to the end their Lordships may understand the opinion and liking of this House touching the same Articles or Heads and so delivered in the same Articles in writing into this House Whereupon after many Speeches and Arguments by divers Members of this House for the reading or not reading for the committing or not committing of the said Articles pro contra it was at last resolved upon the question that the said Articles should be read and so they were thereupon read accordingly Which done after some further debating for the retaining or the returning of the same Articles and for Answer therein to their Lordships it was Ordered that the said M r Serjeant Lewkenor should presently himself alone go and deliver the said Articles again unto such of the said Lords Committees as he had first received them of signifying for Answer only that they had been read in this House and no more Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day on Saturday the 14 th day on Monday the 16 th day on Thursday the 19 th day on Monday the 23 th day and on Tuesday the 24 th day of this instant January foregoing M r Finch one of the Committees in the Bill against excess of Apparel who were appointed on Thursday the 19 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some of their Amendments in the same Bill and likewise their framing of a new Bill to avoid the great excess used in wearing of Ruffs And so delivered in both the said Bills into this House On Thursday the 26 th day of January Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchant Strangers was read the second time and Ordered upon the Question to be ingrossed M r Arnold one of the Committees in the Bill for the reviving continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers prayed a new day of meeting for the Committees in that Bill Whereupon M r Arnold Sir Henry Norris Sir Giles Merrick Sir Oliver Lambert the Knights and Burgesses for London M r Hext M r Wiseman M r Doctor Sands M r Cole Sir Thomas Conisby M r Harper Sir Francis Hastings M r Snagg M r James Harrington Sir Francis Popham with many others who were nominated and appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for the setling and disposing of certain Lands of M r Thomas Knivets was read the second time and Ordered upon the Question to be ingrossed Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for further Ceremony and Credit to be required for Mills was read the second time and upon the Question for the Commitment thereof was upon the division of the House Ordered not to be committed with the advantage of forty six Voices with the No a hundred and forty and with the Yea ninety four and afterwards upon another question for the ingrossing was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Carew did bring from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships Intituled An Act for the reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars The Learned Councel of certain persons pretending interest under the title of William Kirkham the Younger to some of the Lords comprehended in the Lease mentioned in the Bill were this day heard at large in this House and were appointed to prepare their Provisoes to be offered unto the Bill against to Morrow Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships Intituled An Act for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars The Bill for the reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was read the first time On Friday the 27 th day of January the Bill that Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants their Costs lying in Prison for want of Bayl if the Action pass against the Plaintiff was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Sands Mr. Boyes Mr. Snagg Mr. George Crooke Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall The Committees likewise in the Bill for the execution of Judgment who were appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Committees in the Bill for avoiding of deceits in measures and weights were likewise appointed to meet at the same time and place which was now upon the second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill that the Plaintiffs shail pay the Defendants their Costs and Mr. Johnson was added unto them The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for Explanation and Addition of an Act of quinto Regin Eliz. for maintenance of the Navy being twice read the Bill was rejected upon the question for ingrossing Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to give some remedy against the decay and spoil of the Queens Majesties Highways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent through disorderly carrying to Iron Forges and Furnaces was read the second time and committed to the Knights of those three Shires Mr. Shirley Mr. Binley Mr. Oglethorp Mr. Colebrand Mr. Edward Lewkenor and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Mr. Colebrand who with the
rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for Reformation of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Grevill Sir Robert Wroth Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Henry Nevill Sir George Carcy Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy and divers others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Walter Raleigh who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act to reform deceits and breaches of trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses and did shew that their Lordships have likewise passed the same Bill with a Proviso and some Amendments The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act to reform deceits and breaches of trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto by this House and the said Proviso passed upon the Question accordingly The Bill concerning the Highway Lands of the Town of Aylesbury in the Country of Buckingham was read the third time and upon some Motions by some Members of this House was Ordered to be respited from being put to the Question till to Morrow that the Councel of the other sides may be here M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers and Mariners And did shew in like manner that their Lordships had passed the same Bill with some Amendments The Amendments of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers and Mariners being three times read the same Amendments were upon the question assented unto accordingly The Committees of this House in the Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for the better Explanation and Execution of an Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign Capito quarto concerning Tellors Receivors c. who were appointed on Wednesday the 18 th day of this instant January foregoing were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock and have further consideration and Conference amongst themselves touching the proceeding in the same Bill On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read the second time and committed unto some Members of this House to be considered of in the Committee Chamber of this House The Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of Mary Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmund Verney K t was read the second time and passed upon the Question Goodale one of the adverse Parties to the Bill concerning the Highway Lands of the Town of Aylesbury being present in this House and praying some words to be inserted into the said Bill which being upon due and deliberate consideration of this House admitted to be inserted accordingly and three times read the Bill was put to the question and passed thereupon accordingly Mr. Pembridg one of the Committees in the Bill for reviving continuing and explanation of An Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers who were appointed on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some their Amendments to the Bill and so delivered in the Bill to the House The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read the third time and passed with an Amendment of this House in the last line of the same Bill viz. by inserting these words end of the between the first word the and the word first in the same line Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Cary did bring from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships intituled An Act against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and another Bill which lately passed in this House and was sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act for the lawful making of Bayes within the Counties of Fssex and Suffolk which Bill is also passed with their Lordships with a Proviso added to the same by their Lordships which said Proviso being three times read was passed upon the question The Bill against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry had its first reading On Monday the 30 th day of January the Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchant Strangers was read the second time There were seven Bills this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Secretary and others of which the first was the Bill for Punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars the second for the lawful making of Bayes And the third was the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses with order also to move their Lordships for Conference some time after this present day with their Lordships concerning the Bill lately passed with their Lordships and sent down by them unto this House intituled An Act to reform sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used to her Majesties services concerning the Wars M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees for Conference amongst themselves concerning the Bill intituled An Act for the better Explanation and Execution of the Act made in the 13 th year of the Queens Majesties Reign Cap. quart concerning Tellors and Receivors c. shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their not liking to pass the same Bill in this House in manner and form as the same was passed with the Lords in regard of many inconveniencies appearing in the same Bill which were then opened by him at large And shewed further that they thought good to frame a new Bill in that Cause with a better and more reasonable form and so delivered in the same Bill which was thereupon presently read for the first reading accordingly M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill that the Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants Costs lying in Prison for want of Bail who were appointed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing and in the Bill to avoid deceits in Measures and Weights shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with their Amendments to the said Bill to avoid deceits in Measures and Weights and their opinion of reserving the said other Bill till another Parliament and so delivered in both the said Bills into the said House M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill intituled An Act for the Confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tyne The Bill against the decaying of
Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties service concerning the Wars who were appointed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing and to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber as in the said other Bill is likewise appointed and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Secretary and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed their delivering both of their Bills and of the message of this House unto their Lordships as he had in charge by this House to do And further shewed that their Lordships have appointed twenty of themselves to meet with a convenient number of the Members of this House for the Conference in the great Council Chamber at the Court at two of the Clock in the Afternoon concerning the said Bill intituled An Act for the reforming of sundry abuses by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties services concerning the Wars The Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was read the third time Two Provisoes ingrossed in Parchment being offered unto this House by the Lord Sands to be added to the said Bill were twice read and upon the second reading of the same Provisoes it was Ordered after many and sundry Arguments and Speeches of divers Members of this House that the same Provisoes should be committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Serjeant Williams and others and the Provisoes were delivered to Mr. Sollicitor who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Committee Chamber of this House Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 21 th day and on Tuesday the 24 th day of this instant January foregoing On Tuesday the 31 th day of January the Bill for Confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tyne was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for reviving continuing and Explanation of an Act for the necessay relief of Mariners and Souldiers being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for avoiding deceits in Measures and Weights were twice read and after some Speeches had by sundry Members of this House touching the same Bill pro contra the Learned Councel of the Clerk of the Market being upon a motion of some of this House admitted to be heard at the Bar and called for that purpose by the Serjeant of this House to come in the Serjeant shewed that the said Clerk of the Market was gone down into the Hall to fetch his said Councel in the mean time whereof the House entred into another Cause and the said Bill was thereupon committed to be put to the question for ingrossing The Bill for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties debts and for the better explanation of the Act made in the 13 th year of the Queens Majesty intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivers c. lyable to the payment of their debt was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees and Sir Walter Raleigh M r Fulk Grevil M r Swayne Sir Anthony Mildmay Sir Anthony Cope and others were added to them and the Bill with the Committees names was delivered to M r Sollicitor one of the said former Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at four of the Clock in the Star-Chamber in the Afternoon M r Fulk Grevil one of the Committees in the Bill for the better measuring of seven Miles from the Town and Haven of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk who were appointed on Monday the 23 d day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they cannot agree upon any thing touching the said Bill and so delivered in the same Bill in such manner as he before received the same out of this House M r Sherley one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the high-wayes in Sussex Surrey and Kent who were appointed on Friday the 27 th day of January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with some their Amendments in the same and so delivered in the said Bill The two Provisoes to the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands being returned to the House by the Committees and read the third time the said Bill and Provisoes were passed upon the question Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 21. day on Tuesday the 24 th day and on Monday the 30 th day of this instant January foregoing The Proviso in Parchment offered unto the Bill intituled An Act concerning a Lease of great Yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham the younger was twice read and after many disputes and Arguments by sundry Members of this House the same Proviso was read again for the third reading and then the said Bill was in like manner read the third time which done the question was put for the annexing of the said Proviso to the said Bill and Ordered upon the question and upon the division of the House with the advantage of six Voices that the said Proviso should not be annexed to the said Bill the Yea being but seventy and the No being seventy six And afterwards the Bill being in like manner put to the question the said Bill was passed upon the question and upon the division of the House with the advantage of four Voices the Yea being seventy five and the No being but seventy one Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 20 th day of this instant January foregoing On Wednesday the 1. day of February three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for reviving continuing and Explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was read the third time and passed upon the question The Amendments in the Bill against the Excess of Apparel was read the second time and Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed The Bill for the maintenance of Hospitality and for increase of all Victuals and Flesh whereby the Poor shall be much relieved was read the second time and rejected upon the several questions for the committing and ingrossing The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in the House and sent up to their Lordships from this House intituled An Act against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers being three times read the said Amendments and Proviso where dashed upon the questions Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Confirmation of Statutes Merchants in the Town Corporate of Newcastle
upon Tyne was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Recorder of London M r Tanfield M r Wiseman M r Snagg M r Finch M r Lea M r Francis Moore M r Boyes M r Hide and M r John Shirley were added to the former Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of Judgment who were appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant January foregoing and were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple On Friday the third day of February the Bill to restrain the Lading of Corn in some Ports was upon the second reading committed unto M r Colebrand M r Hext Sir Thomas Mounson M r Arnold the Burgesses of Port Towns M r Shirley and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill also for the restraint of carrying of Corn out of the Realm was read the second time and committed to the last former Committees and the same time and place appointed for meeting and both the said Bills and Committees names were delivered to M r Colebrand The Bill against the excess of Apparel was read the third time and passed upon the Question M r Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for the reformation of the abuses touching Wine-Casks with special recommendation for the speedy proceeding in the same Bill and did further bring word from their Lordships that whereas their Lordships received a Bill from this House Intituled An Act for the reviving continuance and explanation of divers Statutes which Bill as their Lordships do wish good success unto so their Lordships do in that respect pray present Conference of some convenient number of this House with six of their Lordships Whereupon Mr. Shirley Mr. Snagg Mr. Duport Mr. Francis Moore Mr. George Crooke Mr. Finch Mr. Oldsworth Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Wiseman Mr. Boyes Mr. Tasborough Mr. Colebrand Mr. George Moore Sir Francis Hastings and Mr. Serjeant Lewkenor were presently appointed for that purpose accordingly Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir Francis Hastings and others of which the first was the Bill for Confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tyne And the second was for the renewing continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners Mr. Secretary one of the Committees in the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars who were appointed on Friday the 27 th day of January foregoing shewed that he and the other of the Committees of this House have attended the Committees of their Lordships in that Bill accordingly And that they found their Lordships very honourably inclined to hear the further minds and opinions of this House touching any the parts or points of the said Bill for their Lordships better satisfactions concerning the same And so moving for another meeting of the said Committees of this House to consider and confer touching the said Bill amongst themselves in the mean time the Committees names were thereupon read by the Clerk and the time of their meeting set down to be to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill lately passed in the Upper House and sent down by the Lords to this House Intituled An Act against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and that the more part of them being imployed in the Committee of a Bill for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties Debts who were appointed on Tuesday the 31 th day of January foregoing And in the Bill for the better explanation of the Act made in the thirteenth year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattles of Tellors Receivors c. liable to the payment of their Debts they would proceed in the said other Bill and so moved for another meeting for that purpose Whereupon it was Ordered the same should be at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act for the establishing of the Lands given by John Bedfords Will to the perpetual repair and Amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham according to the said Will And did shew that their Lordships had likewise passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments and with a Proviso annexed unto the same by their Lordships and so did deliver the said Bill to Mr. Speaker Sir Francis Hastings and others returning from the Lords he shewed the delivering of the Bills unto their Lordships which were sent up unto them by himself and others the Members of this House The Bill for Reformation of abuses in Wine-Casks was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Snagg Mr. Wiseman Mr. Thomas Smith the Burgesses of York Mr. Peirson Mr. Hext Mr. Stevenson Mr. George Moore and Mr. Lilley and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Mr. Hext who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Committee Chamber On Saturday the 4 th day of February Mr. John Shirley one of the Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of Judgment who were appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some their Amendments in the Bill and so delivered in the Bill The Bill for erecting and building of a Bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye near the Town of Rosse in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and another for the confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Verney wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments The Bill for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties Debts and for the better explanation of the Act made in the 13. year of the Queen intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivours c. lyable to the payment of their debts was read the third time and after very many Speeches and Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill was
Morning in the Committee Chamber The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act for the recovery of three hundred thousand Acres more or less of waste Marish and Watery grounds in the Isle of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk were read three times The Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain overflown grounds in the County of Norfolk were three times read in which time of the last reading of these Provisoes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the House and then presently told Mr. Speaker and the residue of this House that her Majesty commanded him to signifie unto Mr. Speaker and to the residue of this House that her Majesties express pleasure was that the said two Bills concerning the draining of Marish and Fenny grounds should not be any more read in this House The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act against the deceitful stretching and taintering of Northern Cloth being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the said Proviso passed upon the Question The Bill Intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes was sent up unto their Lordships by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others Mr. Comptroller one of the Committees of this House for Conference with the Committees of the Lords this Afternoon concerning the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act against the Excess of Apparel c. shewed their meeting with the said Committees of the Lords and that their Lordships have no good liking of the said Bill for sundry imperfections in the same not answerable to her Majesties Proclamation touching the degrees and qualities of persons And that their Lordships shewing themselves very courteously and kindly towards the said Committees of this House could have been well pleased to have proceeding with a more convenient Bill for the said purpose if the expected shortness of the Parliament could so have permitted Whereupon the House resolved not to deal any further touching that matter this Parliament The said Mr. Comptroller then also further shewed that he and other the Committees of this House in the Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and in the Bill for establishing the Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts who had been appointed in the beginning of this present day shewed the meeting of the Committees and their some small Amendments in both the same Bills and so delivered in both the said Bills which Bills being each of them read severally for the third reading the said Amendments being likewise three times read the said Bills were thereupon passed upon the Question accordingly The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act for the further continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners being three times read the Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso passed upon the Question accordingly The Amendments of the Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of Judgments being twice read the same were upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Bill Intituled An Act for the establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies The Bill Intituled An Act against deceitful stretching and taintering of Northern Cloth The Bill intituled An Act for the further continuing and Explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for reformation of abuses in Wine-Casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better Execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Wingfield moved for the ordinary proceeding of this House in the usual course of Parliament to be permitted concerning the two Bills lately passed in this House concerning sundry surrounded grounds in sundry Counties of this Realm and sent up from this House unto the Lords and there in like manner passed with their Lordships in the Upper House with some Amendments and some Provisoes sent down again by their Lordships unto this House the further proceeding of this House in which Bill was yesterday restrained by a Message delivered from her Majesty by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer unto Mr. Speaker and this whole House Mr. Doctor Carew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default in payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown And did shew that the same Bill hath likewise passed with their Lordships with some Amendments and a Proviso and so delivered in the same Bill to M r Speaker M r Serjeant Drew M r Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon Post Meridiem The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships from this House Intituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment or their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the said Provisoes were passed upon the Question The Amendments of the Committees of this House in the Bill that lately passed in the Upper House and was sent down by their Lordships to this House Intituled An Act for reformation of Retailing Brokers and Pawn-Takers being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the Bill likewise passed upon the Question On Thursday the 9 th day of February the Bill Intituled An Act for Reformation of Retailing Brokers and other Pawn-Takers The Bill Intituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees
the Lord Keeper to tell us that she hoped we would not hereafter meddle in Cases of this nature so nearly touching her Prerogative Royal. Mr. Martin spake to this effect I agree with one that said Learning should have her Reward but I say more that our Souls should have their Spiritual Food And I do wish that Divines may have promotion not only with good convenience but also with good abundance Though I be Zealous yet I hope to refrain and restrain my self from that heat which the heat of my Zeal and love of my Country drew me into very lately for which I do not only acknowledge my self guilty in your Censures but also crave Pardon of every particular Member of this House that heard me but most especially of him I offended But touching this Bill Mr. Speaker and so he spake to the Bill c. After this Speech an old Doctor of the Civil Law spake but because he was too long and spake too low the House hawk'd and spat and kept a great coil to make him make an end Which Speech finished Sir Francis Hastings stood up and said My Masters I utterly dislike this strange kind of course in the House it is the antient usage that every man here should speak his Conscience and that both freely and with attention yea though he speak never so absurdly I beseech you therefore that this may be amended and this troubling of any man in his Speech no more used But to the matter Mr. Speaker I protest that which I shall speak I will utter to you all out of the Conscience of a Christian Loyalty of a Subject and heart of an Englishman I know that Distributio Parochiarum est ex jure humano non Divino But he that said so much give me leave to tell him that Distributio verbi Divini est ex jure Divino humano If then by the distributing and severing of Benefices to divers learned men the Word may be the better distributed unto the people and preached as God be thanked it hath been these forty three years under her Majesties happy Government the point of whose dayes I beseech the Almighty may be prolonged I see no reason Mr. Speaker why we should doubt of the goodness of this Bill or make any question of the committing thereof c. Mr. Roger Owen after particular Answers to divers particular Objections by Doctors shewed that a Statute was but privatio communis Juris And this Act will make no Innovation because it repeals only the Proviso and not the Body Whereas it was said by a Doctor that Honos alit artes and much more to that purpose And if you take away the honour and reward then you take away the Study it self For Answer thereunto Mr. Speaker I say under favour that this Statute takes away no Benefices from the Clergy but doth only better order the distribution of Benefices among the Clergy For another Doctor that alledged a Canon confirmed under the Great Seal of England I say under favour that they of the Clergy and not we of the Laity are bound thereby for they are as it were By-Laws to them but not to us Then the Speaker stood up and put it to the question for the Commitment Whereupon it was Ordered by the more Voices that it should be Committed But the Committees Names being omitted in the private Journal they are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book it self and were as followeth viz. All the Queens Privy Council and all the Learned Councel being Members of this House Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Carew Reignolds Mr. Francis Bacon and divers others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Speaker did lastly this Forenoon move the House to resolve whether they would sit to Morrow or no it being the day of her Majesties most Blessed and Hereditary Succession to the Crown of England To which after a little Speech had It was agreed by the House that after the Sermon was done at Westminster which would be ended by ten of the Clock they would sit the residue of the Forenoon And this was affirmed to be the antient Custom On Tuesday the 17 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevill of Berling in the County of Kent and Sir Henry Nevill Knight his Son and Heir Apparent to dispose of certain Copy-hold Lands c. was read the first time And the third being the Bill against unlawful Hunting of Deer or Conies in the Night time was read the second time and upon the question of ingrossing was rejected Heyward Townsend of Lincolns-Inn Esq delivered in a Bill to Mr. Speaker Intituled An Act to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in Suits of Law Upon the delivery whereof he said Mr. Speaker I take every man bound in Conscience to remove a little mischief from the Common-Wealth before it take Head and grow to a great inconvenience This mischief is ordinary and general and therefore though but small to be considered and provided for And if a Heathen Philosopher could admonish us obstare principiis I see no reason but men indued with Christianity should be sensible of the least hurt or sore growing in his Country either regardless or respectless For which purpose a Gentleman well experienced having found this grief common to the poorer sort like a good Subject tendring all the parts of this Common-Wealth engaged me at my coming into the House this Morning to offer unto all your considerations this Bill which it may please you to entertain with that willingness it is offered I doubt not but this inonvenience will quickly be redressed And thereupon the Bill according to the desire of the said Mr. Townsend had its first reading The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by King Edward the Sixth unto Sir Edward Seymour Knight was upon the second reading committed unto the Queens Learned Councel Members of this House the Masters of Request Sir Robert Wroth Sir Maurice Barkley and others who were appointed to meet in the Committee Chamber of this House upon Friday Morning next The Bill for the strengthening of the Grant made for the maintenance and Government of the House of the Poor called S t Bartholomews Hospital of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth was read the second time and committed unto all the Queens Learned Councel being Members of this House Mr. Doctor Caesar Sir Edward Hobbie Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Dr. Bennet and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next at Lincolns-Inn Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The remainder of this days Passages follows out of the private Journal An Act to suppress the Sin of Adultery was read the first time The substance whereof was that if a Woman or Man or both were
House when the Bill is brought in again p. 603. An Amendment of a Proviso added to a Bill in the Upper House agreed upon by the Committees of both Houses at a Conference it is consented unto by the whole Upper House that the Amendment shall be made in the House of Commons and be sent up in paper to the Lords to be by them inserted in the Proviso p. 616 Answers by the Lord Keeper given unto Messages sent from the House of Commons use to be given by him sitting with his Hat on and all the Lords keeping their places p. 439 440 Apparel a Bill against buying it without ready money save by men of such a degree p. 69 70. A Bill to avoid excess in it p. 112. dashed p. 134. Another for not buying wares sold for Apparel without ready money dashed p. 188. Another Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel p. 228. another for the same p. 424. another having passed the Commons is rejected by the Lords and why p. 594 Arch-bishops a Bill declaring the manner of making and consecrating of them and other Bishops to be good p. 108. 110. Arch-bishop of Canterbury the first Peer of the Realm p. 140 Assistants Vide Committees Attach No Peer to be Attached during the Sessions of Parliament p. 203. nor any of their Menial Servants committed to Prison p. 314. 323. 530 c. but other of their servants may p. 315. two committed close Prisoners to the Fleet for arresting a Servant of the Lord Chandois p. 530. another also for arresting the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's Servant p. 532. on what conditions they have their enlargement p. 533. A question moved whether an ordinary servant of the Queens being no Parliament-man be priviledged from being attached in the time of Parliament p. 603 604 606. When a servant of a Peer is committed to Prison upon Execution resolved that he shall be brought to the House not by issuing out a Writ of priviledge of Parliament to the Sheriff but by immediate order from the House to the Gentleman Usher or Serjeant at Arms. p. 605. but the contrary resolved upon search of Precedents and the Lord Keeper to make out the Writ p. 608 Queens Attorney made a Joint-Committee with the Lords p. 142 Award Ordered that if the parties at variance will not enter into such Bond as is appointed by the House to stand to the Award of such Lords as the matter is reserr'd to they shall be committed to Prison p. 618 B. BAbington's Conspiracy 28 Eliz. a Parliament called thereupon p. 375 Bacon Sir Nicholas made Lord Keeper 1 Eliz. p. 1. his Speech to the first Parliament of the Queen in an 1. of her Reign p. 11. His Speech to the Speaker of the House of Commons in the same Parliament at his admission p. 15. and his Reply to the Speakers disabling himself and to his Petitions p. 16. His Reply to the Speaker's Speech at the end of this Session p. 31 32 33. His Speech to the Parliament 5 Eliz. p. 59. at the end of the Session p. 75. and so at the beginning and end of each Session during his life till 23 Eliz. when he was succeeded by Sir Thomas Bromley p. 226 Baron Lord Chief Baron who is but an Assistant to the Upper House made a Committee p. 108 109 Belgrave a Member of Parliament his Case against whom was preferred a Bill in the Star-Chamber for a misdemeanour against a Peer p. 612 Bills usually not spoken to upon the first reading p. 17. Precedents of the contrary ibid. When a Bill has past one House it is seldom Committed or Ordered to be Ingrossed by the other and why ibid. and p. 19 20. 147 148. 326. sometimes Committed upon the first reading Precedents thereof p. 17 18 69. sometimes neither Committed nor Ingrossed either upon the first or second reading p. 111. the manner of delivering a Bill from the House of Lords to the House of Commons p. 19. the manner of passing of a Bill ibid. Bills of Grace seldom Committed nor Ingrossed and why p. 20. sometimes have but one reading p. 73. 91. 464. how passed into Acts. p. 116. Bills sometimes in Queen Elizabeths time not ingrossed till the day after the second reading but now always on the same day p. 26 27. The manner of giving the Royal Assent unto such Bills as are passed into Acts and of disallowing those that are not p. 35. 76. 116. A Bill is sometimes rejected after it has passed the third reading p. 271. A Bill passed by the Lords and rejected by the Commons the Lords expect an account of the reasons of such rejection p. 272 273. Bills of general pardon and of Subsidies not passed into Acts like other Bills p. 274. 328. When Bills are sent up from the Commons the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to arise from their places and to go down to the Bar to receive them p. 439 440 Bishops are commanded to reform abuses in Religion p. 345. Why their names are placed on the dexter side of the Journal of the Upper House p. 422. Vide Popish and Arch-bishop Bloud Vide Restitution in Bloud Bromley Sir Thomas made Lord Chancellor 22 Eliz. p. 226. he died in April 29 Eliz. p. 419 Lord Burleigh his place in Parliament p. 543. C. CAnterbury Vide Arch-bishop Chancellor a Bill declaring his Authority and that of the Lord Keeper to be all one p. 70. Letters Patents to the Lord Chief Justice to supply his place when absent p. 143 A Bill that Chancellors Commissaries c. shall be Graduates in one University p. 72 Clergy Vide Subsidy Coaches a Bill to restrain the excessive use of them within this Realm in 43 Eliz. p. 602. Collection of money for the poor usually made towards the end of a Parliament p. 616. Commissions to certain Lords to Prorogue the Parliament p. 77. 93 94. 274. Verbal Commission to the Lord Treasurer to supply the Lord Keepers place p. 99. A Commission in writing to the Lord Chief Justice to the same purpose p. 102. 383. a revocation of the same p. 108. A Commission 35. Lords or any three of them to dissolve the Parliament p. 275. the like p. 329. and 389. A Commission to three Lords to supply the Queens place in the Parliament 28 29 Eliz. p. 377. These Lords are stiled Lords Lieutenants p. 378. The Parliament cannot be dissolved without a Commission unless the Sovereign be present to give the command to the Lord Keeper c. p. 547. Committees the Judges Queen's Serjeants Baron c. made Joint-Committees with the Lords vide Judges Serjeant Baron c. An Order of the House that a Committee who disallows the Amendments of a Bill or something in the body of the Bill it self may give his reasons to the House when the Bill is brought in again p. 603. A Bill may be delivered to the eldest or youngest Baron of a Committee or indifferently to any of them p. 607. 610.
to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act for confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the continuance of divers Statutes was read secunda vice No mention is made in the Journal-Book of the continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament which seemeth to have been omitted by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday the 26 th day of March Three Bills were read of which the first being a Bill to avoid secret Outlawries of her Majesties Subjects was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Carew One Bill also of no great moment was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Thursday the 27 th day of March divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal met but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament unto the day next following On Friday the 28 th day of March Three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was a Bill for Explanation or Declaration of the Statute of the eighth year of H. 6. concerning forcible Entries the Inditements thereupon found expedite A Bill for the Naturalizing of Joice the Daughter of Ralph Esking Gentleman and Wife of Richard Lambert Merchant born beyond the Seas was read secunda tertia vice and expedited Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in Crastinum dimid horae ante septimam On Saturday the 29 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued one Bill for continuance of divers Statutes was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Stanhope and M r Powle M r Doctor Carew in some other places also written Carie and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords two Acts viz. the Act of the Queens most gracious general and free Pardon and also the Act of the two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty which they carried down to the House of Commons from whence the Bill of Pardon having there passed it was a little after sent back again unto their Lordships by M r Fortescue and others Nota That the sending of these two Bills is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and is therefore supplied out of that of the House of Commons The presence of such Lords as attended her Majesty who was her self this day at the Dissolving of the Parliament in Person is not much differing from that set down on Saturday the 8 th of February foregoing only the two Earls of Northumberland and Essex then absent attended this day as also the Lord Strange the Lord Morley the Lord Talbot the Lord Wentworth and the Lord de la Ware were at this time also present though not then Whereas the Lords Audeley and Cromwell then present were now absent and for the Spiritual Lords it appeareth not at all who were present These being thus set and the House of Commons with Serjeant Snagg their Speaker being let into the Upper House the said Speaker according to the usual form presenting her Majesty with the Bill of two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty desired her Highness graciously to accept thereof as the free testimony of the faithful and loyal respects of their Subjects and withal desiring her Majesty to give her gracious consent to such Acts as had been prepared and expedited by the two Houses After the passing of which Bills the Dissolution of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Cancellarius ex mandato Dominae Reginae tunc praesentis dissolvit praesens Parliamentum It should seem that her Majesty gave her Royal Assent and that this Parliament was Dissolved this present Saturday the 29 th day of March in the Forenoon contrary to the usual course in such cases accustomed for it appeareth in all other Journals for the most part to have been deferred till the Afternoon and that this present Parliament was so Dissolved as aforesaid it appeareth plainly by the last continuance of it on Friday immediately foregoing to this day in the Forenoon half an hour before seven of the Clock to which early and unusual time of the day I suppose it was continued because all things might be better expedited against her Majesties coming THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 4 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1589. THIS Parliament was Summoned about three Months after Gods miraculous preservation of Religion the Realm and her Majesties Person from the ambitious and bloody Conquest of the Spanish King and therefore the House did not only regard their private business as the passing of Bills discussing Elections preserving their Priviledges and the like with which this Journal is abundantly stored but also the publick safety of her Majesty and her Realms by aiding her Highness with the unusual and extraordinary gift of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies the Clergy also adding two Subsidies of their own and by desiring her also in the conclusion of this Parliament to denounce open War against the King of Spain who had so lately invaded her whom they concluded to have been the Root and Fountain of all the Conspiracies practised and of all the Rebellions raised against her Majesty Although this Parliament had been summoned to have begun and to have been holden on Tuesday the 12 th day of November last past yet it held not but was upon the said day in the thirtieth year of her Majesties Reign further Prorogued by her Majesties Writ unto Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the thirty first year of the same On which said Tuesday the 4 th day of February it held accordingly and her Majesty came in Person unto the Upper House where Sir Christopher Hatton being now Lord Chancellor in her Highness presence declared unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and to the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons then and there Assembled how great happiness they enjoyed under her Majesties peaceful and victorious Reign and that though the Spanish late Wonderful Fleet had been lately defeated yet there wanted not still power and malice in him against this Nation and her Majesty and so much the more implacable it may be conjectured he now remains because of his late defeature and loss before-mentioned And therefore he shewed that the cause of the calling of this Parliament was to provide by common Counsel against all his future attempts And lastly he gave notice to
committed unto Sir Robert Carie the Burgesses of Newcastle Barwick Northampton and Lincoln M r Francis Moore and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Dr. Stanhop do bring from the Lords the Bill Entituled An Act for establishing of the new Colledge of the Poor at Cobham in the County of Kent The said Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that some half a score of this House may be presently sent to confer with their Lordships in the Chamber near unto the Upper House touching an Act lately passed this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act for the Repeal of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and for the maintenance of Navigation Whereupon Mr. Comptroller Sir Robert Wroth and others were sent unto their Lordships for that purpose accordingly The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Yelverton Mr. Tasbrough the Citizens of all Cities Mr. Green and others who were appointed to meet here upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in this House Mr. Comptroller and the residue returning from the Lords he did signifie unto the House that their Lordships do think it very dishonourable that any Act should be intended to pass in the time of her Majesties Reign for repealing of any Law bearing such a title as that is being An Act for the repeal of a Statute made in the time of her Majesties Reign for increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation And therefore their Lordships do wish this House would alter the said Title of the said Act if they shall so think good And to that end their Lordships have sent unto this House by them a Note in Paper containing two several Titles either of which are more apt and fit in their opinions to be by this House set down for the title of the said Act The first of which Titles is An Act made for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign bearing the same title And the second is for the increase of Mariners and for the maintenance of Navigation Both which Titles being read by the Clerk choice was made by the House to have the first of the said two titles to be set down by this House for the title of the said Act. Which said first title being three times read by the Clerk was resolved upon the Question so to be set down for the title of the said Act accordingly On Monday the 28 th day of November Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the City of Bristol was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Dr. James Mr. Francis Moore the Citizens of Bristol Gloucester Bath and Wells Mr. Snagg Mr. Green and others And the Bill was delivered to Mr. Green who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall Mr. William Bowyer shewed that being a Member of this House he was this day served with a Subpoena to appear in the Chancery by one James Biddell and so moved for priviledge shewing further that he did signifie unto the said James Biddell that he was a Member of this House and therefore willed him to forbear the serving of the same Process being against the liberty of this House who answered he would do it notwithstanding any such liberties or priviledge of this House whatsoever Mr. Combes and Mr. Henry Powle being likewise Members of this House do shew that they were this day served with a Subpoena ad testificandum in the Star-Chamber by one Anne the Wife of one Thomas Wye Gentleman and so in like manner moving for priviledge the Serjeant of this House was thereupon charged by this House to bring in the said James Biddel and the said Anne the Wife of the said Thomas to appear in this House and answer the said Contempt Sir Thomas Cecill shewed the great impoverishment of many her Majesties Subjects in the Isle of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk by surrounding of many Wastes Marsh and Watery grounds there and wishing some redress thereof offereth a Bill to the House for that purpose and prayeth the reading thereof Whereupon the same was then read for the first reading thereof accordingly Intituled The Bill concerning watery and surrounded grounds in the Isle of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk Mr. Baker one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Wages of Spinners and Weavers who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and the making of a new Bill and so delivereth in both the old Bill and also the new Bill Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Carew do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act for the Repeal of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for increase of Mariners and for the maintenance of the Navigation with certain Amendments by their Lordships in the same Bill Which being afterwards reported unto the House by Mr. Speaker the same Amendments were three times read by the Clerk and so passed upon the question accordingly Roger Dodswell servant to M r Blowmer one of the Middle-Temple having entred into this House and being no Member of the same and brought to the Bar by the Serjeant of this House was committed to the Serjeants Ward and was further referred to be examined this Afternoon by M r Edward Barker and M r Hext and to be by them afterwards reported to this House M r Winch one of the Committees for Sir John Spencer who were appointed on Friday the 25 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meting and proceeding of the Committees to some Amendments in the said Bill and so delivering in the Bill and the same Amendments being twice read by the Clerk of this House the same Bill upon the question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for increase of people for the strength and defence of the Realm was upon the second reading after many Speeches all tending to the good liking and furtherance of the said Bill Ordered to be committed to the said former Committees in the Bill for Tillage who were appointed on saturday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing And so both the Bills with a Note of the Committees names were delivered to Mr. Comptroller M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill
intituled An Act for the better explanation of an Act made in the 13 th year of the Queens Majesties Reign Capite quarto concerning Tellors and Receivors c. and do shew that their Lordships do specially recommend the same Bill unto this House Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor had its third reading and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill it was at last ordered upon the question to be recommitted to the former Committees and a Bill with a Note of the Committees names was delivered to M r Boyse The Bill against excessive Fees of Ecclesiastical Judges and other Officers and Ministers was this day in the Afternoon delivered unto Mr. Speaker On Tuesday the 29 th day of November Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for repairing of the Bridges of Newport and Carlion in the County of Monmouth was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights for all the Shires and Burgesses for all the Boroughs in Wales Monmouthshire Hereford and the Citizens of Bristol and Gloucester Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Pembridge and Mr. Oldsworth And the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Jones one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the Town of Northampton was read the third time and upon the doubtfulness of the question twice put was dashed upon the division of the House by the difference of fifty three persons viz. with the No a hundred fifty three and with the Yea a hundred The Bill for Arthur Hatch was read the third time and passed upon the question the Learned Councel on both sides heretofore having been heard as well before the Committees as in this House at the Bar. Mr. Roger Mawdeley one of the Burgesses for Poole in the County of Dorset is for his necessary business licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart home leaving with Fulk Onslow Esquire Clerk of the House of Commons for the Poor and the Minister five Shillings which the said Clerk received accordingly A like Precedent of this kind where the money was left with the Clerk of the said House was upon the 25 th day of this instant November foregoing being Friday at which time Mr. Sherrington Talbot one of the Burgesses for Chippingham in the County of Wilts was licensed by M r Speaker to depart for his necessary business paying unto the Clerk as aforesaid ten shillings for the Poor and the Minister which he received accordingly On Wednesday the 30 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill for prohibiting the bringing into this Realm of any Foreign Cards for Wooll The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars being twice read the Bill upon the question was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill concerning the Possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich was upon the second reading committed unto M r Stephenson M r Henry Hubbard M r Henry Warner the Burgesses of Warwick and Linne M r Nathaniel Bacon and others And the Bill was delivered to M r Henry Warner who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Dr. James one of the Committees in the Bill for the City of Bristol who were appointed on Monday the 28 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees their Amendments of some parts of the Bill with some Provisoes added and so delivereth in the Bill with the Amendments Mr. Finch one of the Committees in the sundry former Bills for relief of the Poor whose names see on Tuesday the 22 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees in sundry of the said Bills in some of which as they have not as yet throughly proceeded so he doth deliver in a new Bill for relief of the Poor now into this House M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill for repeal of part of the Charter of the Town of Tarmouth who were appointed on Wednesday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and so delivereth in the Bill whereupon after sundry Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill it was Ordered in the end that the Learned Councel on both sides should be heard in this House upon Saturday next in the Afternoon M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill to restrain the carrying of Worsted yarn unwrought who were appointed on Friday the 18 th day of this instant November foregoing and in the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor who were appointed on the same day shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees at large in both the said Bills and their opinions to be that the said Bill to restrain the carrying of Worsted Yarn out of Norwich and the County of Norfolk be left to Oblivion And that the said Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor be referr'd to the further consideration of this House And so delivered in both the said Bills Whereupon the same last recited Bill was after many Speeches both with the Bill and against it passed upon the question Mr. Hext shewing that he and M r Sands according to the Commission of this House unto them have examined Roger Dodswell Servant to M r Blowmer of the Middle-Temple now in the Serjeants Ward for entring into this House and being no Member of the same and that he finds he so did of mere simplicity and ignorance without any evil pretence the said Roger was brought in to the Bar and so submitting himself and taking the Oath of the House was discharged paying his Fees Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 28 th day of this instant November foregoing On Thursday the first day of December Two Bills of no great moment were each of them read the first time of which the former was the Bill for provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London M r James Harrington nothing Which is all that is set down by M r Fulk Onslow Clerk of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book it self although the further intent and meaning of it might very well have been more fully expressed which seemeth to be this That the said M r Harrington being a Member of this House and having Licence from M r Speaker to depart left nothing with him the said M r Onslow towards the Minister who had read Prayers in the said House during this Parliament nor for the Poor which other